All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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All important things are hard.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You are your own stories.
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