If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You are your best thing.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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