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If you surrendered to the air...

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is really nothing more ...

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

If there is a book that you w...

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.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I merged those two words, bla...

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Black people have always been...

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The unflattering reviews are ...

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

At some point in life, the wo...

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Freedom is choosing your resp...

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is an incredible amount...

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Your life is already artful-w...

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is no time for despair,...

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 445 quotes

Sometimes what I write on the...

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Books ARE a form of political...

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

When you stiffen, you know th...

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

There is no civilization that...

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

A friend gathers all the piec...

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The best art is political and...

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 445 quotes

What I'm doing ain't about ha...

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The peace I am thinking of is...

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I am a writer and my faith in...

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor na?ve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....