“It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made… — 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
“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love,… — 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
There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I sure did live in this world.' 'Really? What have you got to show for it?' 'Show? To who? I got my… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Oh, they’ll catch them,” said Walters. “Catch ’em? Catch ’em?” Porter was astounded. “You out of your fuckin mind? They’ll catch ’em,… — 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
![“See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this here, is what a man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back in it. Stop sniveling,’ [the land]…” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cfa/toni-morrison-271_inspirational_see-see-what-you-can-do-never-mind-you-c_2717574.jpg)
