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 MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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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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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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All important things are hard.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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