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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s it's choosing the ones you want.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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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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The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.
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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.
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Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
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Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, goodbye would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet. So long, she murmured from the far side of the trees.
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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
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The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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