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Toni Morrison Quotes
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. - Toni Morrison Quotes
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. - Toni Morrison Quotes
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. - Toni Morrison Quotes
At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I dont mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Everything Ive ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. - Toni Morrison Quotes
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. - Toni Morrison Quotes
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 there was something deficient about such people. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I dont think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. Its perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I dont think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless theyre black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. Thats what were upset about. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I dont write -ist novels. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I get angry about things, then go on and work. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I like marriage. The idea. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you cant teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you cant do anything anyway. - Toni Morrison Quotes
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Im always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody elses contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly were demons. - Toni Morrison Quotes
Im not entangled in shaping my work according to other peoples views of how I should have done it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, you must be the one to write it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
If theres a book you really want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
If youre going to hold someone down youre going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. - Toni Morrison Quotes
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-its nothing else but color. - Toni Morrison Quotes
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