Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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 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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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