...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square… — 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
