--- title: "4 Circles Quotes By Toni Morrison" description: "4 Circles quotes by Toni Morrison. Plus more from Toni Morrison and more Circles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/toni-morrison-271_bottom_it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-h_1414373.jpg" --- > [It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-had-no-bottom-and-it-had-no/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/toni-morrison-271_bottom_it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-h_1414373.jpg) > [Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/our-ancestors-are-an-ever-widening-circle-of-hope/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/toni-morrison-271_ancestor_our-ancestors-are-an-ever-widening-circl_1571182.jpg) > [if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/if-they-put-an-iron-circle-around-your-neck-i-will-bite-it-away/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/toni-morrison-271_circles_if-they-put-an-iron-circle-around-your-n_1727135.jpg) > [Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/did-you-ever-see-the-way-the-clouds-love-a-mountain-they-circle-all/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23e/toni-morrison-271_breakup_did-you-ever-see-the-way-the-clouds-love_2502234.jpg) ## Other authors on Circles - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 23 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-black-elk-18307.jpg) Black Elk 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/black-elk/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rainer-maria-rilke-76940.jpg) Rainer Maria Rilke 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/rainer-maria-rilke/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nicolaus-copernicus-71277.jpg) Nicolaus Copernicus 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/nicolaus-copernicus/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gloria-steinem-38879.jpg) Gloria Steinem 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/gloria-steinem/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-covey-86975.jpg) Stephen Covey 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/stephen-covey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nicholas-sparks-71065.jpg) Nicholas Sparks 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/nicholas-sparks/) - [Neale Donald Walsch 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/neale-donald-walsch/) ## More by Toni Morrison > [Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/perhaps-that-s-what-all-human-relationships-boiled-down-to-would-you/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/there-in-the-center-of-that-silence-was-not-eternity-but-the-death-of/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/in-times-of-dread-artists-must-never-choose-to-remain-silent/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/not-know-it-was-hard-knowing-it-was-harder/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/didn-t-everything-on-god-s-earth-have-or-acquire-defense/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/if-you-can-t-count-they-can-cheat-you-if-you-can-t-read-they-can-beat/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/you-looked-at-them-and-wondered-why-the-were-so-ugly-you-looked/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/all-she-saw-down-in-the-cellar-well-beneath-the-stoop-was-a-light/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/for-me-art-is-the-restoration-of-order-it-may-discuss-all-sort-of/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/to-sethe-the-future-was-a-matter-of-keeping-the-past-at-bay/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/hate-does-that-burns-off-everything-but-itself-so-whatever-your/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/you-know-how-a-star-is-supposed-to-twinkle-we-say-twinkle-because/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/there-is-no-bad-luck-in-the-world-but-whitefolks/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/my-father-saw-two-black-men-lynched-on-his-street-in-cartersville-as/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/she-was-fierce-in-the-presence-of-death-heroic-even-as-she-was-at-no/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circles/toni-morrison/#itemlist", "name": "4 Circles Quotes By Toni Morrison", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Toni Morrison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-had-no-bottom-and-it-had-no/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/toni-morrison-271_bottom_it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-h_1414373.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/toni-morrison-271_bottom_it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-h_1414373.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/toni-morrison-271_bottom_it-was-a-fine-cry-loud-and-long-but-it-h_1414373.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of…” — Toni Morrison", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Toni Morrison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/our-ancestors-are-an-ever-widening-circle-of-hope/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/toni-morrison-271_ancestor_our-ancestors-are-an-ever-widening-circl_1571182.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/toni-morrison-271_ancestor_our-ancestors-are-an-ever-widening-circl_1571182.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/toni-morrison-271_ancestor_our-ancestors-are-an-ever-widening-circl_1571182.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.” — Toni Morrison", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Toni Morrison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/if-they-put-an-iron-circle-around-your-neck-i-will-bite-it-away/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/toni-morrison-271_circles_if-they-put-an-iron-circle-around-your-n_1727135.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/toni-morrison-271_circles_if-they-put-an-iron-circle-around-your-n_1727135.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/toni-morrison-271_circles_if-they-put-an-iron-circle-around-your-n_1727135.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away” — Toni Morrison", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? 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