Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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