More Quotes by Toni Morrison
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.
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.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
All important things are hard.
