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Write about something you don'...

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Clever, but schoolteacher beat...

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

When a child walks in the room...

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.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

If you can only be tall becaus...

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

We mistook violence for passio...

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Nobody loved her and she would...

Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I want to feel what I feel. Wh...

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

If happiness is anticipation w...

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

People say to write about what...

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I don't do the things other pe...

I don't do the things other people call 'play.'

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

You have to be willing to thin...

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Which was what love was: unmot...

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

You free. Nothing and nobody i...

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The vitality of language lies ...

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is no such thing as race...

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I'm just trying to look at som...

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

And I am all the things I have...

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I don't think one parent can r...

I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

You rely on a sentence to say ...

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Oppressive language does more ...

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

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