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 MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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