A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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