I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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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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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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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