My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want 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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You are your own stories.
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