I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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