Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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All important things are hard.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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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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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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