All Toni Morrison Quotes
- The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Dealt
- A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick. Dream
- ...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he… All
- It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of… Bottom
- Anything dead coming back to life hurts. Coming
- ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch… Affront
- the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing… Brittle
- A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do. Inspirational
- What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it? Inspirational
- All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never… All
- Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of… Affection
- guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… Admired
- You are your best thing Best
- Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both… Along
- I dream a dream that dreams back at me Dream
- True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a… Accept
- Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder Beloved
- Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop. Depends
- All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her… All
- Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. Belong
- I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that… Bag
- This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me… Anything Else
- 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 you would go… Babies
- For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A… All
- Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that… Handed