Time Quotes by Toni Morrison

“They shoot the white girl first, but the rest they can take their time.”

— Toni Morrison

Let things go so you can maintain in doing your own thing at all times. xDD

— Toni Morrison

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

— Toni Morrison

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

— Toni Morrison

“...they have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the colour of the sky... their eyes do…

— Toni Morrison

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

— Toni Morrison

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media…

— Toni Morrison

“Lying on a ring of onion, a tomato slice exposed its seedy smile, one she remembers to this moment.”

— Toni Morrison

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,…

— Toni Morrison

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black.…

— Toni Morrison

“Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first…

— Toni Morrison

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his…

— Toni Morrison

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any…

— Toni Morrison

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal…

— Toni Morrison

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no…

— Toni Morrison

“It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights—if…

— Toni Morrison

“She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed…

— Toni Morrison

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't…

— Toni Morrison

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,…

— Toni Morrison

“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never…

— Toni Morrison

All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could…

— Toni Morrison

“I was talking about time. It's so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just…

— Toni Morrison

“I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to…

— Toni Morrison

“When I first seed Cholly, I want you to know it was like all the bits of color from that time down…

— Toni Morrison

“They shoot the white girl first, but the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are…

— Toni Morrison

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word…

— Toni Morrison

“When they fall in love with a city it is for forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't…

— Toni Morrison

“Young people, Lord. Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only…

— Toni Morrison

“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

“The hills below crouched on all fours under the weight of the rainforest where liana grew and soldier ants marched in formation.…

— Toni Morrison

“There is a society. It’s made up of a few men who are willing to take some risks. They don’t initiate anything;…

— Toni Morrison

“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”

— Toni Morrison

“For a long time now he knew that anything could appear to b something else, and probably was.”

— Toni Morrison

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

— Toni Morrison

“You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.”

— Toni Morrison

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

— Toni Morrison

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at…

— Toni Morrison

“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the…

— Toni Morrison

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could…

— Toni Morrison

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room…

— Toni Morrison