He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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