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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.

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

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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 over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Graduation, Mean
"These Great Commencement Speeches Will Change How You Look at Success and Failure" by Matt Miller, www.esquire.com. May 5, 2017.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Women, Differences
Interview with Zia Jaffrey, www.salon.com. February 02, 1998.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Country, Mean
The Guardian, January 29, 1992.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Graduation, Art

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

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 that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

Toni Morrison
Inspirational, Mean, Elude You
Toni Morrison's Commencement Address to the Wellesley College Class of 2004, web.wellesley.edu. 2004.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

Toni Morrison
Love, Inspirational, Thinking
Toni Morrison (1998). “Paradise”, Knopf

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