A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Pauline, what would you do if your own brother had a party and didn’t invite you?’ I said ifn I really wanted… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back… — 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
