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.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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 function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your best thing.
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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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