I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could… — 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
