It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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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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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All important things are hard.
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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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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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