Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All important things are hard.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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