And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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When 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.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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