Quotes from Toni Morrison
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
— Toni Morrison
I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.
— Toni Morrison
Passion is never enough neither is skill.
— Toni Morrison
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
— Toni Morrison
Her passions were narrow but deep.
— Toni Morrison
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
— Toni Morrison
It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
— Toni Morrison
I like marriage. The idea.
— Toni Morrison
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
— Toni Morrison