You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All important things are hard.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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