What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONI think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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