All Toni Morrison Quotes
- I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that… Absorb
- Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among… Among
- Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run… Amount
- Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems… All
- The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really… Badly
- Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Been
- Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. Articulation
- I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. Aspect
- I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. Anything Anyway
- Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long,… Energetic
- Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. American
- You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what… Choice
- I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're… Anybody
- I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they… Always Assumed
- Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about… Abstraction
- One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of… Born
- And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly.… Another Saying
- ...the change was adjustment without improvement. Adjustment
- if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away Bite
- Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets… Alice