The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride 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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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