I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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