Author: Toni Morrison

Quotes

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

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

- Toni Morrison

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

- Toni Morrison

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

- Toni Morrison

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.

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

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.

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.

- Toni Morrison

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

- Toni Morrison

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.

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

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

- Toni Morrison

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

- Toni Morrison

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