Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Toni MorrisonBeloved (1987)
About Toni Morrison
American novelist and Nobel laureate, author of Beloved. (1931-2019)
More from Toni Morrison
- If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Speech to the Ohio Arts Council (1981)
- We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993)
- Definitions belonged to the definers, not the defined.Beloved (1987)
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- Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.Mahatma Gandhi
- If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.Mahatma Gandhi
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.Martin Luther King Jr.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Keller
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