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Own Quotes by Toni Morrison
- You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.
- 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…
- If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to…
- Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it,…
- If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by…
- There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the…
- guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released…
- All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her…
- Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,…
- You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was…
- She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and…
- they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked…
- Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say…
- It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
- The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means…
- Let things go so you can maintain in doing your own thing at all times. xDD
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov