Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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