Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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