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Toni Morrison - From the Artists category:
I do not subscribe to the theory of the artist as a sort of separate aesthetic being sitting in the ivory tower suffering and talking about beauty. It is work, it is hard work and there's a lot of it, and there's a lot of it that needs to be done, but that's exactly what it is. It is not sitting under willow trees and being inspired. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Beauty category:
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Beginning category:
I always get up and make a cup of coffee while it is still dark - it must be dark - and then I drink the coffee and watch the light come... For me, light is the signal in the transition. It's not being in the light, it's being there before it arrives. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Books category:
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, the you must be the one to write it. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Expectation category:
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Freedom category:
The function of freedom is to free someone else. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Humour category:
Laughter is more serious than tears. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Importance category:
I can do the traditional things that writers always say they do, which is to make order out of chaos. Even if you are reproducing the disorder, you are sovereign at that point. Struggling through the work is extremely important - more important to me than publishing it. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Information category:
Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Language category:
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Leadership category:
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Music category:
Music makes you feel hungry for more of it. Literature should do the same thing. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Questions category:
How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Writing category:
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison - From the Writing category:
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. (Toni Morrison)
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