She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONI 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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