In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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