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 MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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You are your own stories.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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