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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
All important things are hard.
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.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
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.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
