Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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