“It's going to hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life’s principal joy was reckless indeed. So” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“...the flirt whom folks called Life, lead them on. Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She banged her knuckles until they ached to get the attention of the living flesh behind the glass, and would have smashed… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“But the important thing is that I don't do anything else. I avoid social life normally associated with publishing. I don't go… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He screamed and shouted 'Wooeeeee!' at Guitar's list, but because his life was not unpleasant and even had a certain amount of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you how I felt when my father died. But I was able to write Song of Solomon and imagine,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Although each of her nurses was markedly different from the others in looks, dress, manner of speech, food and medical preferences, their… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share
