I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONI don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONI’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONThe enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONThere 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. That is how civilizations heal.
TONI MORRISON