You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You are your own stories.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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