She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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All important things are hard.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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