I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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