If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISON -
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON -
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISON -
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON -
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISON -
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON -
All important things are hard.
TONI MORRISON -
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON -
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISON -
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.
TONI MORRISON -
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
TONI MORRISON -
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISON -
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON -
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISON -
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, very serious problem.
TONI MORRISON