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.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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