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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
