A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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