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7 Powerful Toni Morrison Quotes To Live By

Award-winning prolific author Toni Morrison died on Monday. The Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning laureate died at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88 years old. Morrison lived a full life, using her powerful voice to speak profoundly on social issues in the scopes of race and gender.

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To celebrate the life of such an amazing and inspirational icon in the literary community, we will be sharing some powerful quotes by Toni Morrison that we should all live by.

1. “Make a difference about something other than yourselves.”

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2. “Your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.”

3. “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”

4. “You wanna fly, you got to give up the sh*t that weighs you down.”

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5. “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

6. “We never shape the world… the world shapes us.”

7. “Look to yourself. You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. Seek your own land. You young and a woman and there’s serious limitation in both, but you are a person too.”

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8. “You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”

9. “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”

10. “A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.”

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Toni Morrison truly was a gift and a necessity to womanhood, to blackness, and to humanity. Her influence and the profundity of her voice cannot be overstated. She lived a life worth remembering so we will not forget. Rest In Power, Toni Morrison.

For more on our heroes, check out our articles on Buchi Emecheta and Nelson Mandela. Stay on Plat4om for more inspirational content.

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Tokoni Akosubo

Tokoni is a content writer and screenwriter who is passionate about stories and social issues. When she's not tapping away at her keyboard, she's a committed foodie with an eye for style and interior decor.

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