Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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