More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
All important things are hard.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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.
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.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
