She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON -
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON -
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISON -
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISON -
All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON -
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON -
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
TONI MORRISON -
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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 -
Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON -
You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISON -
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISON -
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON -
What a woman. What a life.
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