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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
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.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.