Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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