You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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You are your own stories.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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