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.


Conversations with Toni Morrison (ed. 1994)

Toni Morrison Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...