There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONWhen 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 MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON