To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at 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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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