Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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