You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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