Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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You are your best thing.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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