“ Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. Toni Morrison
“ Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon. Toni Morrison
“ 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. Toni Morrison
“ 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… Toni Morrison
“ 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… Toni Morrison
“ Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose. Toni Morrison
“ 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… Toni Morrison
