I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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