More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
