All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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