Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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All important things are hard.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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