Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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All important things are hard.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You are your own stories.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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