Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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