Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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