More Quotes by Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
