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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

— Toni Morrison

“I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”

— Toni Morrison

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

— Toni Morrison

He wants to put his story next to hers.

— Toni Morrison

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local.…

— Toni Morrison

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

— Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to…

— Toni Morrison

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else.…

— Toni Morrison

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

— Toni Morrison

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

— Toni Morrison

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

— Toni Morrison

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't…

— Toni Morrison

I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to…

— Toni Morrison

I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your…

— Toni Morrison

Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind…

— Toni Morrison

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly…

— Toni Morrison

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the…

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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 laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you…

— Toni Morrison

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