Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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