Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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