Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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 always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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