Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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