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.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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