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From Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the…
- An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul…
- Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable…
- The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
- All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I…
- I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
- From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
- I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and…
- Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
- Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
- I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.
- Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal…
- The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what…
- 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.
- I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that…
- And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly.…
- There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the…
- the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing…
- Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,…
- You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it…
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