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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.' ↗

— Denise Morrison

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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#be yourself #each #especially #feel #feeling

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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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 your own repression. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#behave #believe #black #country #jewish