Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You are your own stories.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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 function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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