Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses – young loving.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“They come from Mobile. Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Meridian. And the sounds of these places in their mouths make… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And no, they ain’t in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Little of that makes for love, but it does pump desire. The woman who churned a man's blood as she leaned all… — 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
