At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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 didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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