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More Quotes by Toni Morrison
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
All important things are hard.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
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.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
