Famous Toni Morrison Quotes

  • The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it’s in mortal danger. – Toni Morrison

    The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it’s in mortal danger.– Toni Morrison

  • Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. – Toni Morrison

    Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.– Toni Morrison

  • The best thing she was, was her children. – Toni Morrison

    The best thing she was, was her children.– Toni Morrison

  • No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. – Toni Morrison

    No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.– Toni Morrison

  • He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone. – Toni Morrison

    He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.– Toni Morrison

  • Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. – Toni Morrison

    Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.– Toni Morrison

  • The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind. – Toni Morrison

    The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.– 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. – 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. – Toni Morrison

  • Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know. – Toni Morrison

    Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know.– Toni Morrison

  • More it hurt more better it is. Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know. – Toni Morrison

    More it hurt more better it is. Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know.– Toni Morrison