Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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 or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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