Lonely was much better than alone.
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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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