Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONWicked 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 MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISON