"The best thing she was, was her children."

Family, Identity, Love, Legacy

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Children, Clothes

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Partnership, Decision, Teamwork

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

Society, War, People, Class, Country

"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."

Relationship, Family, Man, Running

"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."

Equality, People, Contempt, Understanding

"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

Writing, World

"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."

Nature, Death, Justice, Life

"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."

Relationship, Love, Trust, Connection, Fear

"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

"Children are angels."

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Explore more quotes by Toni Morrison

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."

"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."

"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."

"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."

"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."

"Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers."

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."