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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American Novelist
Born: Feb 18, 1931
About Because Black Country People You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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 Good Me You Man Woman Mind Back Give Know Pieces She Got Am Friend Order Them Your Who Right Gather
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. Toni Morrison
Words Pain No Words Same
Make a difference about something other than yourselves. Toni Morrison
Other About Something Make Make A Difference Than Difference
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
You Book Must Write Written Read Been Want
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
You Own Down Other Someone End Going Confined Repression Hold Your Chain
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni Morrison
You Ride Air Could
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
You Book Must Write Written Read Been Want Then Really
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. Toni Morrison
Nothing Difficult Must More Take Since How Handle Refuge Really Why
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. Toni Morrison
Love Love Is Thin
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison
Yourself Ownership Claiming One Thing Self Freed Freeing Another Thing
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Toni Morrison
You Trust Power Before Think Positions Enter Dream Little
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison
Life Language Meaning Of Life Our Our Lives Die May Meaning Meaning Of Measure Lives
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
People Thought Other Deficient About Something Never Absorb Exclusion Looked Insult Always Person Pitiable Acts
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
People Black Understanding Everybody Else Totally About Bear Brunt Annoyed Contempt Smiling Always Demons Suddenly Why
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. Toni Morrison
Responsibility Somebody Leader Take Being Being A Leader
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
Life You World Remember Beauty Enough Photograph Some Point Becomes Paint Even Need
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
You Black White Everything Out Find Minute About Something No-One Talks Revelation Were Happens Moment Found Ever Profound
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. Toni Morrison
Love People Would Delightful Were Children Even Whom
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
People Black Enormous Those Run Complicity City Take Schools Without None Place Victims Who Amount Things Violence
I get angry about things, then go on and work. Toni Morrison
Work Angry Anger About Go Get Then Things
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Toni Morrison
War Class People Black Country Prevent Between Powers Buffer Always Been Used
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
Strange Power Ability Writers Self Test Familiar Imagine
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. Toni Morrison
Work People Other Entangled Shaping How According Done Should Views
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Toni Morrison
Art Black Tolerance Rigorous Art Form Taught Form Literature Serious Sociology
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. Toni Morrison
Writing World Everything Has-Been Rather Been Expand Close Than Articulation Done Ever
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison
First Wrote Read Because Wanted Novel
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