For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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All important things are hard.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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.
TONI MORRISON