She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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