00:00If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must be
00:05the one to write it.
00:07Tony Morrison
00:11We are not.
00:13We are not people of faith.
00:16We are people of the book.
00:19We are people of the deed.
00:22We are people of the struggle.
00:25Tony Morrison
00:28We are our history.
00:31We are the stories that we tell ourselves.
00:34Tony Morrison
00:38You are your mother's daughter and your father's son.
00:43You are your grandmother's child and your grandfather's grandchild.
00:48Tony Morrison
00:52Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
00:57Tony Morrison
01:00All art is a kind of pleading.
01:03Tony Morrison
01:07If you want to make somebody feel the way you feel, you have to describe the thing that made you
01:12feel that way.
01:14Tony Morrison
01:18The wind itself is a metaphor for the consciousness of the people.
01:23Tony Morrison
01:27When you encounter any large institution, you must recognize that it is not your friend.
01:33Tony Morrison
01:37We are here to give voice to the voiceless.
01:41Tony Morrison
01:45The capacity of the human being to think, to feel, to care, to love.
01:51Tony Morrison
01:54My people
01:56My history
01:58My life
02:00And my dreams
02:02Tony Morrison
02:07The function of the writer is to have courage.
02:10Tony Morrison
02:14When you have the choice between the easy way and the right way, always choose the right way.
02:20Tony Morrison
02:24The idea is to make the reader understand the character's life.
02:29Tony Morrison
02:33I want to write about the things that are difficult to write about.
02:38Tony Morrison
02:42To be a writer is to be a reader.
02:45You have to read everything.
02:48Tony Morrison
02:52The past is never dead.
02:54It's not even past.
02:57Tony Morrison
03:01What is it that we are afraid of?
03:04We are afraid of ourselves.
03:07Tony Morrison
03:11We're all of us born in the same way, and we all die in the same way.
03:16Tony Morrison
03:17Tony Morrison
