Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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