Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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