It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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You are your best thing.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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