But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You are your best thing.
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You are your own stories.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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