A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All important things are hard.
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You are your own stories.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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