Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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