You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in 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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