More Quotes by Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
