A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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You are your own stories.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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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