You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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 MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISON