Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONTo get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your best thing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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