Author: Toni Morrison

Quotes

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

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

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

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

- 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

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

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

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

- Toni Morrison

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