All Toni Morrison Quotes
- The function of freedom is to free someone else. Free
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but… Beloved
- ...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she… Been
- I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability… Apparently
- Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,… Belonging
- You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it… Accepted
- Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction… Always Left
- Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging. Anger
- They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… Age
- Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was… All
- They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The… All
- I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history,… Affects
- What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.… Able
- How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… Arrive
- What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not? Difference
- Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I… Absence
- I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.… All
- Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands… Free
- Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. Along
- You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was… Absolutely
- It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that… All
- It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing… Anticipation
- He said, 'Always. Always. Always Always
- They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm… Aboveground
- It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. Bird