Toni Morrison Quotes

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

Dare to be Free.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think everyone should have a free spirit.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

I have tried in my way to be free.

I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair.

In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.