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Thinking Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are…
- The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
- When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
- What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say…
- I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
- As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
- I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head…
- I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
- I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
- I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're…
- And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly.…
- All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her…
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but…
- I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history,…
- What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.…
- Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I…
- I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.…
- When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she…
- Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
- Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
- I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater…
- Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me…
- There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking…
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