Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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All important things are hard.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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