I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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