I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write 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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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