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 MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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