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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. ― Toni Morrison
Quotes About Freedom
You
Give
Toni Morrison
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ― Toni Morrison
Quotes About Freedom
Yourself
Claiming
Toni Morrison
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
― Toni Morrison
Want
Toni Morrison
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.
― Toni Morrison
Writing
Self
Civilization
Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
― Toni Morrison
Love
Responsibility
Revolutionary
Toni Morrison
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
― Toni Morrison
Jobs
Freedom
Real
Toni Morrison
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.
― Toni Morrison
Art
Pain
Important
Toni Morrison
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.
― Toni Morrison
Race
Racism
Social
Toni Morrison
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
― Toni Morrison
Inspirational
Happiness
Attitude
Toni Morrison
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
― Toni Morrison
Destiny
Views
Waiting
Toni Morrison
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
― Toni Morrison
Decision
Safe
Want
Toni Morrison
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.
― Toni Morrison
Inspirational
Graduation
Mean
Toni Morrison
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
― Toni Morrison
Book
Reflection
Political
Toni Morrison
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
― Toni Morrison
Inspirational
Women
Differences
Toni Morrison
All important things are hard.
― Toni Morrison
Important
Hard
Toni Morrison
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
― Toni Morrison
Order
Giving
Pieces
Toni Morrison
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
― Toni Morrison
Art
Years
Racism
Toni Morrison
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
― Toni Morrison
Art
Waiting
Toni Morrison
Laughter is more serious than tears.
― Toni Morrison
Laughter
Tears
Serious
Toni Morrison
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
― Toni Morrison
Racism
People
Gone
Toni Morrison
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