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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
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.
