The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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