Toni Morrison's Quotes About Success "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'" "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it." "If you find a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Image Source: Getty / Brad Barket