Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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 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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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