Toni Morrison Quotes

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
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.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
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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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
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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Awake Door Misery Walk
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
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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Difficult Distraction Game Theory World
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak

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