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Toni Morrison Quotes: We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure,…

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

("The Bluest Eye")

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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious the subject of the dream is the dreamer
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Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.
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I don't write -ist novels.
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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.
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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
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