He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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