Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONI’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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