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Toni Morrison Quotes
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I like marriage. The idea (Toni Morrison Quotes)
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Anger... it’s a paralyzing emotion... you can’t get anything done (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope (Toni Morrison Quotes)
All art is knowing when to stop (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know (Toni Morrison Quotes)
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was (Toni Morrison Quotes)
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to (Toni Morrison Quotes)
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network (Toni Morrison Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created (Toni Morrison Quotes)
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers (Toni Morrison Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it (Toni Morrison Quotes)
What difference does it make if the thing you are scared of is real or not? (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event (Toni Morrison Quotes)
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia (Toni Morrison Quotes)
A son ain’t what a woman say. A son is what a man do (Toni Morrison Quotes)
A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world (Toni Morrison Quotes)
I always know the ending; that’s where I start (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Laughter is more serious than tears (Toni Morrison Quotes)
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me (Toni Morrison Quotes)
It was a fine cry, loud and long, but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow (Toni Morrison Quotes)
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow (Toni Morrison Quotes)
For me, art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction (Toni Morrison Quotes)