There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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All important things are hard.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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