We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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