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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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.
All important things are hard.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
