Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONI think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON -
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
TONI MORRISON -
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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 -
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 -
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISON -
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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 -
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISON -
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISON -
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISON -
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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 -
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISON -
What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISON -
You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISON -
Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISON -
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISON -
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISON -
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISON -
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISON -
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISON -
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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 -
He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON