More Quotes by Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
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.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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.
