Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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