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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.