Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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You are your best thing.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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