All Toni Morrison Quotes
- As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Dream
- When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. All
- Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. Leader
- The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Ability
- No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound… Black
- Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. African American
- I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. According
- If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Air
- I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head… Broken
- I get angry about things, then go on and work. Anger
- Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. All
- We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Communication
- I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. First Novel
- In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. American
- Make a difference about something other than yourselves. Difference
- There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. Difficult
- For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. Black
- It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. Been
- The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can… Babies
- There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. Any