When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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’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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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