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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.

Toni Morrison

I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON

Break Up Broken Heart Fortune Leaving Missing Sheer
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.
TONI MORRISON

Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISON

Liberty Silence
Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISON

Love Lover
Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISON

Inspirational Laugh One Liner Positive
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISON

Beautiful Women
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISON

Dreams Fashion Nightmare
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISON

House Place Writing
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON

Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISON

Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISON

Awake Door Misery Walk
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON

Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk

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