Quotes by Toni Morrison

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by...

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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written...

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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I...

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I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's...

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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the...

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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or...

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women...

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I get angry about things, then go on and work.

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I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question...

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's...

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