All Toni Morrison Quotes
- Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured. All
- My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… Avalanche
- Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal… Able
- The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the… Affects
- As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. Book
- Laughter is more serious than tears. Humour
- Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it,… Beat
- The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what… Anywhere
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all… All
- If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Attitude
- All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. All
- Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Claiming
- At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. Art
- If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by… Chain
- I like marriage. The idea. Fun
- My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. Children
- Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. Became
- I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly… Always Annoyed
- A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. Become White
- In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. American
- As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Dream
- When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. All
- Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. Leader
- The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Ability
- No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound… Black