There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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All important things are hard.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at 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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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