Toni Morrison Quotes

Love is never any better than the lover.

Toni Morrison

You are your best thing

Toni Morrison

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Toni Morrison

Something that is loved is never lost.

Toni Morrison

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

Toni Morrison

Today is always here, said Sethe. Tomorrow, never.

Toni Morrison

I like marriage.The idea.

Toni Morrison

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Toni Morrison

We never shape the world the world shapes us.

Toni Morrison

A son ain't what a woman says. A son is what a man does.

Toni Morrison

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

Toni Morrison

All art is knowing when to stop.

Toni Morrison

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

Toni Morrison

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

Toni Morrison

Love is or it ain't.Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Passion is never enough; neither is a skill.

Toni Morrison

Racism will disappear when its no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Toni Morrison

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Toni Morrison

NewYork is the last true city.

Toni Morrison