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.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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