Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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