In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You are your best thing.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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