From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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