You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONThe enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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