Quotes by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American novelist, essayist, editor

Lived from: 1931 - 2019

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 february 1931 Died: 5 august 2019

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  • There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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  • There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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  • We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
    The Bluest Eye (2014) 138
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  • What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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  • What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
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  • When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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 free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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  • You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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