All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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