Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female… — 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
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 Image
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
