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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.

Toni Morrison

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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
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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Feeling Safe Writing
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
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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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
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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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
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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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
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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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait

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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