I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISON
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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