It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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All important things are hard.
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