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Toni Morrison

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
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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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching 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
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Deep Forever Inspirational Memories Memory Water
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
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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Book Writing

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