If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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