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 MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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