Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You are your best thing.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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