Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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You are your best thing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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