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 MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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