All Toni Morrison Quotes
- Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a… All
- But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. Die
- Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and… Alive
- He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are… Best
- Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow. Anybody
- Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Black
- Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in… Been
- People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So… Know Anything
- If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy. Anticipation
- I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got. All
- Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability. Considered
- We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. Freedom
- Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. Beat
- Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say… Acquiesce
- It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different… Been
- Something that is loved is never lost. Funny
- How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. Achieve
- It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. Bad
- You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad. Bad
- Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door. Ahead
- Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started:… Age
- Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered… Another One
- But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let… Alone
- The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means… Always Choose
- From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you… Art