Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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