For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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