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 MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All important things are hard.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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