More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
All important things are hard.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
