Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONThe enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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 MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISON