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.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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