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 pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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