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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.

Toni Morrison

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISON

Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISON

Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
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.
TONI MORRISON

Book Reading Want
Lonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISON

Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
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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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON

Feeling Safe Writing
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON

Break Strawberry Summer
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISON

Liberty Silence
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISON

Angry Work
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 MORRISON

Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Music People
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
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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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISON

Love Lover

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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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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