“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.” — 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
“It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I started out believing that life was made just so the world would have some way to think about itself, but that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“But the important thing is that I don't do anything else. I avoid social life normally associated with publishing. I don't go… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She banged her knuckles until they ached to get the attention of the living flesh behind the glass, and would have smashed… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He screamed and shouted 'Wooeeeee!' at Guitar's list, but because his life was not unpleasant and even had a certain amount of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She wants you here as much as I do. For her it is to save her life. For me it is to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises…… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's going to hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts.” — 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
