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Been Quotes by Toni Morrison
- There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
- Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the…
- And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
- Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
- I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they…
- 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…
- If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
- Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
- Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
- I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that…
- ...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she…
- You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
- She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and…
- Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed?…
- Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in…
- It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different…
- If there's a book that you want to read,but hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.
- 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.
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