I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You are your own stories.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You are your best thing.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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