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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Toni Morrison
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American
-
Novelist
Born:
February 18
, 1931
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Toni Morrison
Book
,
Read
,
Been
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Toni Morrison
Other
,
About
,
Than
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison
Ownership
,
Claiming
,
Freeing
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
Toni Morrison
Ride
,
Could
,
Air
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
May
,
Measure
,
Die
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't 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
Nepotism
,
Everybody
,
Upper
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Friendship
,
Woman
,
Back
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.
Toni Morrison
Black
,
Revelation
,
About
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison
Art
,
Literature
,
Rigorous
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
Country
,
Jewish People
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison
Beauty
,
Need
,
Some
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
Read
,
Badly
,
Took
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison
Country
,
Everybody
,
Means
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison
Other
,
Chain
,
Confined
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Toni Morrison
Trust
,
Dream
,
Think
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
Self
,
Test
,
Imagine
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
Book
,
Read
,
Been
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
City
,
Black
,
Amount
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 is a man.
Toni Morrison
Broken
,
Think
,
House
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison
Country
,
Always
,
Been
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Toni Morrison
Will
,
Been
,
Which
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison
Equality
,
About
,
Abstraction
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison
Nature
,
Memory
,
Perfect
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
Toni Morrison
Leader
,
Take
,
Being A Leader
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
Always
,
Surrounded
,
Very
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison
Smiling
,
Always
,
Everybody
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