More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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 function of freedom is to free someone else.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
All important things are hard.
