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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.

Toni Morrison

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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Awake Door Misery Walk
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
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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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISON

Couple Future Kindness Past Relationship
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISON

Art Life Wait
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON

Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON

Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISON

Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISON

Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISON

Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself

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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