Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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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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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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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