Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You are your own stories.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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