You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONThere is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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You are your own stories.
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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 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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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All important things are hard.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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