Famous Toni Morrison Quotes

  • It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding – Toni Morrison

    It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding– Toni Morrison

  • We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer’s movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious. – Toni Morrison

    We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer’s movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.– Toni Morrison

  • She missed — without knowing what she missed– paints and crayons – Toni Morrison

    She missed — without knowing what she missed– paints and crayons– Toni Morrison

  • You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. – Toni Morrison

    You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.– Toni Morrison

  • She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. – Toni Morrison

    She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.– Toni Morrison

  • Lonely was much better than alone. – Toni Morrison

    Lonely was much better than alone.– Toni Morrison

  • You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face. – Toni Morrison

    You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.– Toni Morrison

  • Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear. – Toni Morrison

    Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.– Toni Morrison

  • -¦he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear. – Toni Morrison

    -¦he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.– Toni Morrison

  • You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose. – Toni Morrison

    You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.– Toni Morrison