The writing is - I'm free of pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.
- Toni Morrison
More Quotes By Toni Morrison
When you first start writing-and I think it’s true for a lot of beginning writers-you’re scared to death... There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living,... The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
Please don’t settle for happiness. It’s not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that’s all... There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.... If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism... It’s important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious... If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must... In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I... Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge;...
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