All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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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 have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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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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