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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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