There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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