Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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 such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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