Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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