Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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