Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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