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
The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down… — 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
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human.... And although you don't… — 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
![“I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/540/toni-morrison-271_art_i-know-there-s-some-poetry-that-sort-of_2786675.jpg)
