I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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What a woman. What a life.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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