I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in 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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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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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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