I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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