But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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