Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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 pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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