What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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 MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONRacism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON