You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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