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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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.
All important things are hard.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
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.
