Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You are your best thing.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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