Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your own stories.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All important things are hard.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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