Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You are your best thing.
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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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