“ 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
“ Maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous. Toni Morrison
“ Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. Toni Morrison
“ Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that’s the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell ov… Toni Morrison
“ Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitt… Toni Morrison
“ I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen. Marlon James
“ We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I’m fifty and I don’t know nothing. What about it? Do I stay with him? I want to, I think. I want… we… 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
“ I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—… 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
“ Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know. Toni Morrison
