You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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 MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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 MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONWicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONI don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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 MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONTo get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON