Quotes by : Toni Morrison

Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if....

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon....

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're....

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close....

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember....

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But....

I was talking about time. It's so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things....

Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside....