Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
TONI MORRISON -
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISON -
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON -
There 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 MORRISON -
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON -
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISON -
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISON -
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON -
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISON -
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISON -
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISON -
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISON -
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON -
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISON -
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISON






