You are your best thing.
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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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