I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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 MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON