I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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 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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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