Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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