A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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All important things are hard.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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