Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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