I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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 MORRISONAll important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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 MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONThe enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISON