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 MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I 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.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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