There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONI think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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