All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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All important things are hard.
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