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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
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 know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
