Heart Quotes by Toni Morrison

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

— Toni Morrison

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

— Toni Morrison

“Sula never competed; she simply helped others define themselves.”

— Toni Morrison

Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see…

— Toni Morrison

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction,…

— Toni Morrison

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

— Toni Morrison

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her…

— Toni Morrison

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it…

— Toni Morrison

“I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the…

— Toni Morrison

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to…

— Toni Morrison

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room…

— Toni Morrison

“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the…

— Toni Morrison

“She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed…

— Toni Morrison

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can…

— Toni Morrison

Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like…

— Toni Morrison

Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that…

— Toni Morrison

“She thought it would dry his tears and give her some satisfaction as well. It could have worked, I suppose, but the…

— Toni Morrison

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a…

— Toni Morrison

“She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes…

— Toni Morrison

“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

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked…

— Toni Morrison

If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would…

— Toni Morrison

“With relief they wrapped their heads in rags, and their breasts in flannel; eased their feet into felt. They were through with…

— Toni Morrison

“Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it,…

— Toni Morrison

“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it…

— Toni Morrison