He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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