I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some… — 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
“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands… — 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
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
