Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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