Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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