You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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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’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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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