Toni Morrison Quotes
American writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
(1931 - )
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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
[Nature]
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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
[Art]
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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.
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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
[Acts]
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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.
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I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
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