Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You are your best thing.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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