She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONI’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 MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON