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 MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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