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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.
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.
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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
