A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You are your best thing.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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