Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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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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You are your best thing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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