For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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 wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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