All Toni Morrison Quotes
- If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very,… Knees
- When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for. Anybody
- Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. Art
- Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation. Alone
- Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art
- I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me. Book
- Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them. Face
- She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but… Abandoned
- The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or… Became
- If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to… Accept
- More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark? Bears
- Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. Belief
- I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had… Been
- There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it… Anthropologically
- The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. Ability
- You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. Free
- Which was what love was: unmotivated respect. Funny
- In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. Artist
- There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.… Civilization
- I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to… Art