She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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All important things are hard.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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