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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison
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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
Toni Morrison
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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
Toni Morrison
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Toni Morrison
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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
Toni Morrison
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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
Toni Morrison
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Toni Morrison
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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
Toni Morrison
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni Morrison
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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
Toni Morrison
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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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Nature
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison
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