Toni Morrison

"It's been mentioned... that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."

"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves, a special kind of double." Toni Morrison

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.” #write #writer

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

“Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” Song Of Solomon, 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

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.” #write #writer

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Toni Morrison talks her book, #HOME youtu.be/hyA8ASbYrpQ #video #writer #CBS

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”

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

“When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.” Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison talks her book, #HOME youtu.be/hyA8ASbYrpQ #video #writer #CBS

“The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.” Toni Morrison

“Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” #Beloved

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Toni Morrison

"A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody." #Beloved by, Toni Morrion

"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." Toni Morrison

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.