I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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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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