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Word Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other…
- There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- 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…
- But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
- It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
More Word Quotes
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo