Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISON -
Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISON -
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON -
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISON -
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.
TONI MORRISON -
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON -
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISON -
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
TONI MORRISON -
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISON -
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISON -
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISON -
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
TONI MORRISON -
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISON -
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISON -
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISON






