In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONThe enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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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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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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