More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
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.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
