I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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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What a woman. What a life.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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The 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.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You are your own stories.
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All important things are hard.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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