The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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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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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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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