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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What a woman. What a life.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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