Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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