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One Quotes by Toni Morrison
- The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
- 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…
- I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
- When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness -…
- The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should…
- 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.
- Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
- No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound…
- I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head…
- 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.
- There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
- 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…
- 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…
- I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me,…
- A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or…
- ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch…
- I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability…
- 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…
- It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that…
- 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…
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