--- title: "21 Way Quotes By Toni Morrison" description: "21 Way quotes by Toni Morrison. Plus more from Toni Morrison and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c4/toni-morrison-271_concepts_the-enemy-is-not-men-the-enemy-is-the-co_2063644.jpg" --- > [The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/the-enemy-is-not-men-the-enemy-is-the-concept-of-patriarchy-the/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c4/toni-morrison-271_concepts_the-enemy-is-not-men-the-enemy-is-the-co_2063644.jpg) > [I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/i-write-the-way-women-have-babies-you-don-t-know-it-s-going-to-be/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/toni-morrison-271_babies_i-write-the-way-women-have-babies-you-do_845707.jpg) > [No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/no-matter-what-all-your-teeth-and-wet-fingers-anticipated-there-was/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/toni-morrison-271_accounting_no-matter-what-all-your-teeth-and-wet-fi_2488630.jpg) > [If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/if-a-negro-got-legs-he-ought-to-use-them-sit-down-too-long-somebody/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/toni-morrison-271_beloved_if-a-negro-got-legs-he-ought-to-use-them_2670302.jpg) > [What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/what-s-the-world-for-you-if-you-can-t-make-it-up-the-way-you-want-it/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb7/toni-morrison-271_want_what-s-the-world-for-you-if-you-can-t-ma_1766907.jpg) > [I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/i-m-interested-in-the-way-in-which-the-past-affects-the-present-and-i/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab5/toni-morrison-271_contemporary_i-m-interested-in-the-way-in-which-the-p_1224010.jpg) > [Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/word-work-is-sublime-because-it-is-generative-it-makes-meaning-that/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32d/toni-morrison-271_dies_word-work-is-sublime-because-it-is-gener_2444420.jpg) > [I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/i-m-just-trying-to-look-at-something-without-blinking-to-see-what-it/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53b/toni-morrison-271_books_i-m-just-trying-to-look-at-something-wit_1963653.jpg) > [Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/writing-is-really-a-way-of-thinking-not-just-feeling-but-thinking/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77c/toni-morrison-271_feelings_writing-is-really-a-way-of-thinking-not_1809636.jpg) > [When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/when-i-m-not-creating-or-focusing-on-something-i-can-imagine-or/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/toni-morrison-271_creating_when-i-m-not-creating-or-focusing-on-som_1694471.jpg) > [“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/if-writing-is-thinking-and-discovery-and-selection-and-order-and/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dba/toni-morrison-271_accompany_if-writing-is-thinking-and-discovery-and_2466075.jpg) > [In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/in-a-way-her-strangeness-her-naivet-her-craving-for-the-other-half-of/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/toni-morrison-271_art_in-a-way-her-strangeness-her-naivet-her_1355336.jpg) > [She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/she-left-me-the-way-people-leave-a-hotel-room-a-hotel-room-is-a-place/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/toni-morrison-271_consequence_she-left-me-the-way-people-leave-a-hotel_382353.jpg) > [And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/and-talking-about-dark-you-think-dark-is-just-one-color-but-it-ain-t/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/toni-morrison-271_black_and-talking-about-dark-you-think-dark-is_2002868.jpg) > [Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/only-her-tight-tight-eyes-were-left-they-were-always-left-they-were/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff0/toni-morrison-271_beauty_only-her-tight-tight-eyes-were-left-they_2786775.jpg) > [It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/it-was-not-death-or-dying-that-frightened-him-but-the-unexpectedness/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/489/toni-morrison-271_death_it-was-not-death-or-dying-that-frightene_472315.jpg) > [But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/but-jude-she-would-say-you-knew-me-all-those-days-and-years-jude-you/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/toni-morrison-271_bathroom_but-jude-she-would-say-you-knew-me-all-t_2825596.jpg) > [Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/sex-is-difficult-to-write-about-because-it-s-just-not-sexy-enough-the/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/579/toni-morrison-271_admire_sex-is-difficult-to-write-about-because_3218069.jpg) > [I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/i-laughed-but-before-i-could-agree-with-the-hairdressers-that-she-was/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/toni-morrison-271_agree_i-laughed-but-before-i-could-agree-with_174996.jpg) > [Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/each-member-of-the-family-in-his-own-cell-of-consciousness-each/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/toni-morrison-271_belonging_each-member-of-the-family-in-his-own-cel_2715613.jpg) > [Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/did-you-ever-see-the-way-the-clouds-love-a-mountain-they-circle-all/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23e/toni-morrison-271_breakup_did-you-ever-see-the-way-the-clouds-love_2502234.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Toni Morrison > [Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/perhaps-that-s-what-all-human-relationships-boiled-down-to-would-you/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/there-in-the-center-of-that-silence-was-not-eternity-but-the-death-of/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/in-times-of-dread-artists-must-never-choose-to-remain-silent/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/not-know-it-was-hard-knowing-it-was-harder/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/didn-t-everything-on-god-s-earth-have-or-acquire-defense/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/if-you-can-t-count-they-can-cheat-you-if-you-can-t-read-they-can-beat/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/you-looked-at-them-and-wondered-why-the-were-so-ugly-you-looked/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/all-she-saw-down-in-the-cellar-well-beneath-the-stoop-was-a-light/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/for-me-art-is-the-restoration-of-order-it-may-discuss-all-sort-of/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/to-sethe-the-future-was-a-matter-of-keeping-the-past-at-bay/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/hate-does-that-burns-off-everything-but-itself-so-whatever-your/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/you-know-how-a-star-is-supposed-to-twinkle-we-say-twinkle-because/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/there-is-no-bad-luck-in-the-world-but-whitefolks/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/my-father-saw-two-black-men-lynched-on-his-street-in-cartersville-as/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) > [“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/she-was-fierce-in-the-presence-of-death-heroic-even-as-she-was-at-no/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/toni-morrison/#itemlist", "name": "21 Way Quotes By Toni Morrison", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The enemy is not men. 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