All Toni Morrison Quotes
- When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do. Black
- You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human.... And although you don't have complete control… Author
- Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event. Event
- American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. Africanist
- The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. All
- And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed… Among
- My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all… All
- Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something? Ahead
- Unless carefree, mother love was a killer. Beloved
- Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you. Beloved
- Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death… Anything God
- And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man. Beloved
- I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to. Always Start
- When a man angers you, he conquers you. Angers
- Let your face speak what's in your heart. Face
- 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 - happiness -… All
- From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. Chance
- I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because… Block
- No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all… All
- The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference. Difference