Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONWhen 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The 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.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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