Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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 MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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 MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONWhen a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISON