Toni Johnson > Toni's Quotes

“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“How to Write a Poem

Catch the air
around the butterfly.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer, The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself”
― James Baldwin

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
― James Baldwin