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.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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 didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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