The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You are your own stories.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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