The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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 MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISON