In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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