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 MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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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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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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