More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
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.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
