I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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