Children Quotes by Toni Morrison

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking…

— Toni Morrison

“124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For”

— Toni Morrison

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

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I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the…

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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

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Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it…

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My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children…

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“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the…

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“Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl…

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The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not…

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who…

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“Gather up your loins, daughter. You named Lillian Florence Jones after my mother. A toughter lady never lived. Find your talent and…

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My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen…

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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have.…

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The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a…

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“The plight (and resistance) of children living in a wholly commercialized environment that equates “entertainment” with happiness, products with status, “things” with…

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Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us.…

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One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,…

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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her…

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She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…

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But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some…

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It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I…

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“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never…

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“Let the children come,' and they ran from the trees toward her. 'Let your mothers hear you laugh,' she told them. And…

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“I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to…

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There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word…

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“After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the…

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“A daughter is a woman that cares about where she come from and takes care of them that took care of her.”

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“I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of…

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“Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to…

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Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl…

— Toni Morrison

“I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean a thing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger,…

— Toni Morrison

“God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who…

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“She thought it would dry his tears and give her some satisfaction as well. It could have worked, I suppose, but the…

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Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to…

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“But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead,healthy children.More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked…

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“Sad as it was that she did not know where her children were buried or what they looked like if alive, fact…

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When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command,…

— Toni Morrison