Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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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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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 peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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 fall in love, I rose in it.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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