I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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