I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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