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.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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