A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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 MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONIf 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 MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON