I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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