Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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