At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all 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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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