At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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What a woman. What a life.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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