At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISON -
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
TONI MORRISON -
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISON -
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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 -
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISON -
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON -
Lonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISON -
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISON -
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISON -
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON -
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISON -
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISON -
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISON -
Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISON