Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You are your best thing.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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All important things are hard.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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 no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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