From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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