The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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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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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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You are your own stories.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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All important things are hard.
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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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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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