I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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You are your own stories.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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