Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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What a woman. What a life.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your own stories.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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