A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONI think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your own stories.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You are your best thing.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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