A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You are your own stories.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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