The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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