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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Laughter is more serious than tears.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
