A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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