In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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