What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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