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American Novelist February 18, 1931

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Toni Morrison quote: "To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not..."
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. ..."
I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with..."
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Something that is loved is never lost."
Something that is loved is never lost. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality..."
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging. Toni Morrison
Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, You know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy? Toni Morrison
guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Love is divine only and difficult always."
Love is divine only and difficult always. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Love is never any better than the lover."
Love is never any better than the lover. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. Toni Morrison
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word. Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects. Toni Morrison
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. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens? that letting go? you let go because you can. Toni Morrison
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
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. Toni Morrison

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