The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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