Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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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 want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You are your best thing.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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