My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors… — 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
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and… — 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
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on… — 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
