All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You are your best thing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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