I 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.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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