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Need Quotes by Toni Morrison
- I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
- Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
- All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I…
- You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
- 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.
- 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.…
- At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
- To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
- When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is…
- I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that…
- Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I…
- She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of…
- Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well,…
- I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I…
- At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record…
- When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to…
- Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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