He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read 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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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