You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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 friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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