Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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