Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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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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