I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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