Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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