My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONI 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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