The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is… — 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
