All Toni Morrison Quotes
- Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death… Anything God
- And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man. Beloved
- I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to. Always Start
- When a man angers you, he conquers you. Angers
- Let your face speak what's in your heart. Face
- Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness -… All
- From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. Chance
- I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because… Block
- No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all… All
- The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference. Difference
- The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should… Beauty
- There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. Art
- Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love. Anybody
- ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable… Acknowledged
- The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to… All
- If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. Adolescence
- Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing. Been
- Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. Children
- I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they… Any
- Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. Created
- All important things are hard. All
- You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up. Connotation
- I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and… Art
- If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. Down
- A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy Bestseller