Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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 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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