You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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You are your best thing.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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