I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art… — 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
