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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
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.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
