I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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.
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