Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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There 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.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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