Toni Morrison Quotes

Toni Morrison Quotes.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison
All important things are hard.
Toni Morrison
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
Toni Morrison
I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren’t my children.
Toni Morrison
There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni Morrison
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
Toni Morrison
I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Toni Morrison
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Toni Morrison
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison