Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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