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.
TONI MORRISON
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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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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