There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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 MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISON