All Toni Morrison Quotes
- Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had… Best
- Gimme hate, Lord,†he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry… Ain T
- Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. African American
- In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… Activity
- She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of… All
- I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater… Access
- When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… Able
- Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. Birth
- In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… Affection
- Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your… Best
- Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if… Aimless
- And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not… Aggressive
- When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. Cities
- In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. Convinced
- Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. Beloved
- Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well,… Anything Else
- they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked… Breeze
- Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. Beauty
- There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write… Compromise
- I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it… Agree