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Toni Morrison6 quotes
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987It takes a village to raise a child. — Toni Morrison · 1984She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison · 1987There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind-wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place. — Toni Morrison · 1987I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981There 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. — Toni Morrison · 2015