Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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You are your own stories.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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 paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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You are your best thing.
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