There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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