All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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