A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONThere’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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And 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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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All important things are hard.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You are your best thing.
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