In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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All important things are hard.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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What a woman. What a life.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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