I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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