Lonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISON -
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISON -
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON -
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISON -
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON -
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISON -
There 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 -
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON -
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISON -
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISON -
I’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 MORRISON -
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON -
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISON -
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISON -
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISON