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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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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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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