In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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 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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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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What a woman. What a life.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You are your own stories.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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