What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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 peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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You are your own stories.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All important things are hard.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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