I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONDon’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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