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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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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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