To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You are your best thing.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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