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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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