Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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