There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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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.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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What a woman. What a life.
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