More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
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.
All important things are hard.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
