Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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
-
-
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON -
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISON -
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
TONI MORRISON -
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON -
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISON -
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISON -
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISON -
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISON -
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISON -
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISON -
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
TONI MORRISON -
Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON -
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISON -
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON -
He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON