There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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