More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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.
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.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
All important things are hard.
