To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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