The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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 MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONRacism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONIf you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
TONI MORRISON