Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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