All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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