Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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All important things are hard.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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