In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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