All Toni Morrison Quotes
- The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should… Beauty
- There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. Art
- Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love. Anybody
- ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable… Acknowledged
- The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to… All
- If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. Adolescence
- Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing. Been
- Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. Children
- I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they… Any
- Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. Created
- All important things are hard. All
- You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up. Connotation
- I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and… Art
- If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. Down
- A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy Bestseller
- Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other… Die
- Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want. Choosing
- I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village. Child
- And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing. All
- I don't do the things other people call "play." Call