“You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. — 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
“In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — 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
