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Top 500 Toni Morrison Quotes (2024 Update)
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Toni Morrison Quote: “Good is knowing when to stop.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Somewhere inside you is that free person I’m talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Write at the edges of the day.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world’s resources.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Art is not mere entertainment or decoration, it has meaning, and we both want and need to fathom that meaning – not fear, dismiss, or construct superficial responses told to us by authorities.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I like marriage. The idea.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? And if, having done so, and He deigned to remind her of how weak and ignorant she was, where was the news in that? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn’t matter to me what your position is. You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you’ve got.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Lonely was much better than alone.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Lonely, ain’t it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs – all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. “Here,” they said, “this is beautiful, and if you are on this day ‘worthy’ you may have it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
Toni Morrison Quote: “New York is the last true city.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it’s the only place where I am that I never think about when I’m leaving.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Sweet, she thought. He must think I can’t bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, “goodbye” would break me to pieces. Ain’t that sweet. “So long,” she murmured from the far side of the trees.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “It’s gonna hurt, now,” said Amy. “anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “A man ain’t nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that’s somebody.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn’t take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Who’s Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Not even trying, he had become the kind of man who could walk into a house and make the women cry. Because with him, in his presence, they could. There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep – to tell him that their chest hurt and their knees did too. Strong women and wise saw him and told him things they only told each other:.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak. Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The “better life” she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Hagar, don’t. It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of “chosen-ness” and can easily blossom into bigotry. It’s not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don’t get nothing for it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can’t help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don’t even know why. But look here, don’t carry it inside and don’t give it to nobody else. Try to understand it, but if you can’t, just forget it and keep yourself strong, man.”
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