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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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.
