At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I 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.
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