You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. Toni Morrison
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W. E. B. Du Bois
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. Winona Ryder
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. Muhammad Iqbal
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. Mikhail Baryshnikov
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb. Glenn Beck
A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it. Glenn Beck
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. Bell Hooks
I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. Richard Pryor
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. Fiona Apple
I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. Christina Ricci
I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does. Diablo Cody
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. Louis Aragon
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. Ramakrishna
I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. Vaclav Havel
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. Joe Biden
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. Henry James