My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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