More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
All important things are hard.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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 there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
