We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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 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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You are your best thing.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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