A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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