More Quotes by Toni Morrison
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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.
All important things are hard.
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.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
