Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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