Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The spectacle of mass movement draws attention inevitably to the borders, the porous places, the vulnerable points where one's concept of home… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Whose house is this? Whose night keeps out the light In here? Say, who owns this house? It’s not mine. I dreamed… — 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
