Author: Toni Morrison

Quotes

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

- Toni Morrison

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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