From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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All important things are hard.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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