A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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