In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write 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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All important things are hard.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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