I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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