Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You are your own stories.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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