Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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