You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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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 time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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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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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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