Life Quotes by Toni Morrison

“It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.”

— Toni Morrison

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

— Toni Morrison

“It's going to hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”

— Toni Morrison

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

— Toni Morrison

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

— Toni Morrison

At some point in life, the worlds beauty becomes enough.

— Toni Morrison

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

— Toni Morrison

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

“...the flirt whom folks called Life, lead them on. Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it.”

— Toni Morrison

“Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.”

— Toni Morrison

“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?”

— Toni Morrison

“Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life’s principal joy was reckless indeed. So”

— Toni Morrison

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

— Toni Morrison

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

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

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we…

— 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

When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life -…

— Toni Morrison

“Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses…

— Toni Morrison

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

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where…

— Toni Morrison

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his…

— Toni Morrison

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

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

“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

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the…

— Toni Morrison

“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

“...because slave life had "busted her legs, back, head, eyes, hands, kidneys, womb and tongue," she had nothing left to make a…

— Toni Morrison

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

She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing…

— Toni Morrison

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

“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never…

— Toni Morrison

“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

“I can't tell you how I felt when my father died. But I was able to write Song of Solomon and imagine,…

— Toni Morrison

“Although each of her nurses was markedly different from the others in looks, dress, manner of speech, food and medical preferences, their…

— Toni Morrison

“Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of…

— 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

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

— Toni Morrison

“She wants you here as much as I do. For her it is to save her life. For me it is to…

— Toni Morrison