There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Wicked 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.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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