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.
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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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 dream a dream that dreams back at 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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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