More Quotes by Toni Morrison
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
All important things are hard.
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.