Her voice. Her lead.
"Sometimes you don’t survive whole
You just survive in part
But the grandeur of life is that attempt
It’s not about that solution.
It is about being as fearless as one can
And behaving as beautifully as one can
Under completely impossible circumstances
It’s that, that makes it elegant
Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding.
Evil is silly.
It may be horrible but at the same time it’s not a compelling idea.
It’s predictable. It needs a tuxedo. It needs a headline. It needs blood. It needs fingernails.
It needs all this costume in order to get anybody’s attention
But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually.
They certainly are spiritually.
It’s a more fascinating job.
We are already born. We are going to die.
So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between."
Toni Morrison.
Conversation with Frank McCourt, 2001. DR.
