Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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 MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON