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World Quotes by Toni Morrison
- The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do…
- All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
- Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
- The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should…
- ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable…
- I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and…
- If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to…
- I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to…
- The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what…
- At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
- Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems…
- Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
- I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me,…
- Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits…
- When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is…
- What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
- This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me…
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but…
- They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The…
- I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater…
- In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
- I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it…
- At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record…
- We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.
- Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach