Men Quotes by Toni Morrison

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.

— Toni Morrison

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

— Toni Morrison

A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody

— Toni Morrison

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

— Toni Morrison

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

— Toni Morrison

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody…

— Toni Morrison

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the…

— Toni Morrison

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent…

— Toni Morrison

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen…

— Toni Morrison

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What…

— Toni Morrison

“Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get…

— Toni Morrison

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have.…

— Toni Morrison

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his…

— Toni Morrison

Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship…

— Toni Morrison

Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day.…

— Toni Morrison

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some…

— Toni Morrison

Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to…

— Toni Morrison

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people…

— Toni Morrison

The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that…

— Toni Morrison

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male…

— Toni Morrison

Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between…

— Toni Morrison

Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place…

— Toni Morrison