I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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