All important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON -
He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON -
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON -
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISON -
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISON -
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISON -
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON -
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISON -
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISON -
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISON -
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISON -
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISON -
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON -
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISON -
Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISON