Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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