It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that… — 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
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew… — 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
