Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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 MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONThere’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON