Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear… — 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
