If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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 think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All important things are hard.
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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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