Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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