The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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All important things are hard.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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