I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You are your best thing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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