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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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All important things are hard.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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