Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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