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.
Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.
Be more interested in character than reputation
There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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