Toni Morrison Quotes

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

You can only write your own vision.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little crazy.

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.