Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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