Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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 MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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 MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON