We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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