Toni Morrison Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Two, Community

• Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

  Toni Morrison

  Family, Children, Two

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status - that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided - something about their presence is constructive in the long run.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Book, Ideas

  O, The Oprah Magazine, November 2003.

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