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.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
All important things are hard.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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.
