Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONWicked 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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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