Toni MorrisonWe read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women. ✨ Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it… ▶371DeathReading
Toni MorrisonThere's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'l… ▶371LifeTruth
Toni MorrisonListen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Thi… ▶371HumanityHumorLife
Toni MorrisonYou rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.361Thought
Toni MorrisonThey seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fi… ▶362HopeReadingThought
Toni MorrisonThey encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations. ✨ Toni Morrison (20… ▶351DeathLove
Toni MorrisonNobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability. ✨ Toni Morrison (2014). Beloved, Random House373LoveReflection
Toni MorrisonIt's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.373Death
Toni MorrisonLanguage alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation. ✨ Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993374Reading
Toni MorrisonUsually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, a… ▶352Philosophy
Toni MorrisonNarrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. ✨ Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993363ReadingTime
Toni MorrisonEach member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. … ▶352LifeTruth
Toni MorrisonWord-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may b… ▶374DeathHumanityLife
Toni MorrisonFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.341LifeReading
Toni MorrisonTo be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing. ✨ A Mercy. Boo… ▶374Reading
Toni MorrisonSomebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.259, Univ. Press of Miss… ▶352Humanity
Toni MorrisonWhat difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not? ✨ Toni Morrison (1987). Sula353Humor
Toni MorrisonThis is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the… ▶331HumanityLifeTime
Toni MorrisonNever did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them … ▶364Reflection
Toni MorrisonBeing able to laugh got me through.365Humor
Toni Morrisonyou got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.332Reflection
Toni MorrisonDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined. ✨ Toni Morrison (2014). Beloved, Random House321Love
Toni MorrisonI dream a dream that dreams back at me. ✨ Dreamy Wilderness by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2008.321Thought
Toni MorrisonAll she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him my parrot all these years. My p… ▶332Love
Toni MorrisonI 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 Morr… ▶332Thought
Toni MorrisonBlack 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… ▶321Humanity
Toni MorrisonI don't do the things other people call play.344Humanity
Toni MorrisonWould it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something? ✨ Beloved. Book by Toni Morrison, 1987.322LoveReading
Toni MorrisonWhen am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world? ✨ Toni Morrison (1987). Sula344LifeSadnessTruth
Toni MorrisonBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. ✨ Toni Morrison (2014). The Bluest Eye, p.7, Random House333Truth
