Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You are your own stories.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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