Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.
Interpretation
True freedom involves taking responsibility for our choices rather than avoiding them.
This quote by Toni Morrison emphasizes the idea that genuine freedom is not the absence of responsibilities, but rather the ability to choose which responsibilities we take on. It suggests that freedom is empowered by our choices and the commitments we make, highlighting the importance of personal agency in shaping our lives.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Toni Morrison once reminded us, freedom is choosing your responsibility.'
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, youβre doing for others, and what you do for others, youβre doing for yourself.
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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