Quotes from Toni Morrison
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
— Toni Morrison
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
— Toni Morrison
He can't value you more than you value yourself.
— Toni Morrison
Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
— Toni Morrison
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
— Toni Morrison
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
— Toni Morrison
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
— Toni Morrison
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
— Toni Morrison
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
— Toni Morrison
Something that is loved is never lost.
— Toni Morrison
Lonely was much better than alone.
— Toni Morrison
Gimme hate, Lord," he whimpered. "I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it...It's too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain't it heavy? Jesus? Ain't love heavy?
— Toni Morrison