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Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how (Toni Morrison Quotes)
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever (Toni Morrison Quotes)
... she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself (Toni Morrison Quotes)
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 Quotes)
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger (Toni Morrison Quotes)
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one (Toni Morrison Quotes)
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con (Toni Morrison Quotes)
A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment (Toni Morrison Quotes)