He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
-
-
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON -
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON -
Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISON -
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISON -
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON -
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISON -
I 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 MORRISON -
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON -
Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISON -
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISON -
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISON -
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISON -
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISON -
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON -
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON






