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There is no time for despair,...

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.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Your life is already artful-w...

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is an incredible amount...

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Freedom is choosing your resp...

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

At some point in life, the wo...

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The unflattering reviews are ...

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

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Black people have always been...

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

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I merged those two words, bla...

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

If there is a book that you w...

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is really nothing more ...

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

If you surrendered to the air...

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

In becoming an American, from...

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

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Freeing yourself was one thin...

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I think some aspects of writi...

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I don't think anybody cares a...

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

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My children are delightful pe...

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

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One of my kids was born in 19...

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I would solve a lot of litera...

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

We die. That may be the meani...

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Some Native American writers ...

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

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