Toni Morrison Quotes

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.