Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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