Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command,… — 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
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone.… — 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
