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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You are your best thing.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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