What did Toni Morrison mean by: I’m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how I should have done it. - Toni Morrison Author · USA Copy
+ The function of freedom is to free someone else. Feraz Zeid, July 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Toni Morrison, Love, Responsibility, Revolutionary, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Toni Morrison, First, Novel, Writing, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Communication, Meaning Of Life, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Leisure, Passion, Violence, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Class, Country, War, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Beautiful, Friendship, Real Friends, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never. Feraz Zeid, July 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Toni Morrison, Tomorrow, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ All art is knowing when to stop. Feraz Zeid, August 30, 2023December 24, 2023, Toni Morrison, Art, Knowing, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France