To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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You are your best thing.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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What a woman. What a life.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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