Toni Morrison Quotes

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

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

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!