Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your own stories.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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