From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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