"You need not settle for any defining category." Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, one of the world's most celebrated American novelists, has died at the age of 88. Listen to her words of wisdom to graduates at Wellesley College in her 2004 commencement speech.
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00:00You need not settle for any defining category.
00:05You don't have to be merely a tax payer, or a red state, or a blue state, or a consumer,
00:14or a minority, or a majority, of course you're general, but you're also specific.
00:20A citizen and a person.
00:24And the person you are is like nobody else on the planet.
00:27Nobody has the exact memory that you have.
00:33What is now known is not all what you are capable of knowing.
00:38You are your own stories.
00:43And therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human without wealth.
00:54What it feels like to be human without domination over others.
01:00Without reckless arrogance.
01:03Without fear of others unlike you.
01:07Without rotating, rehearsing, and reinventing the hatreds you learned in the sandbox.
01:16And although you don't have complete control over the narrative, no author does, I can
01:23tell you.
01:25You can nevertheless create it.