We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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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.
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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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