Beauty Quotes by Toni Morrison

20 Beauty quotes by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison’s prose often carries the weight of history, and her thoughts on beauty are no different. Across twenty passages, she weaves cultural resonance with poetic nuance, urging a deeper awareness of how beauty informs identity and memory.

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

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“She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.”

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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

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At some point in life, the worlds beauty becomes enough.

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“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little.…

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“She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in…

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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the…

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The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,…

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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is…

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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is…

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“Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty…A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of…

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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art…

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“We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain make us…

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Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into…

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“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated…

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