Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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