All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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