At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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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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