In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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