From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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