A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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