Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONThere’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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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All important things are hard.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You are your own stories.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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