Quotes by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American novelist, essayist, editor

Lived from: 1931 - 2019

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 february 1931 Died: 5 august 2019

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  • If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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  • In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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  • In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
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  • Let your face speak what's in your heart.
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  • Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
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  • Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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  • Love is never any better than the lover.
    The Bluest Eye (2014) 161
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  • Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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  • 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 revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
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  • Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.
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  • Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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  • 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.
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  • Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
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  • Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.
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  • The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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  • The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
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  • The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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  • The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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  • There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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  • There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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