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.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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All important things are hard.
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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.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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