In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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.
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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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