Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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