Toni-morrison Quotes

Write at the edges of the day.

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...

It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...

Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...

...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it...

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood a...

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the w...

We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I...

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...

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

I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- ...

But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...