What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All important things are hard.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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