Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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