It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You are your own stories.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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