Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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 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 fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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