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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Laughter is more serious than tears.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
All important things are hard.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
