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.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You are your best thing.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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