Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Female freedom always means sexual freedom, even when—especially when—it is seen through the prism of economic freedom.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command,… — 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
