Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You are your own stories.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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