All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 4
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 3
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 3
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 3
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend. Toni Morrison American Writer More Toni Morrison Quotes 2
Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Toni Morrison American Writer More Toni Morrison Quotes 2
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me. Toni Morrison American Writer More Toni Morrison Quotes 1
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 1
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I get angry about things, then go on and work. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 0