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 MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You are your best thing.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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