Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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 there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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