Toni Morrison Quote

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ask...

Not know it was hard

It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

When I first seed Cholly, I want you to know it was like all the bits of color from that time down home when all us chil'ren went berry picking after a funeral and I put some in the pocket of my Sunda...

Write at the edges of the day.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' 'The way I want it?' 'Yeah. The way you want...