Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Toni Morrison quotes, Toni Morrison sayings, and Toni Morrison proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.Toni Morrison
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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.Toni Morrison
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Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.Toni Morrison
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Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.Toni Morrison
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When the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier that only birds and airplanes could fly he lost all interest in himself.Toni Morrison
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.Toni Morrison
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A woman could be cobra-thin and starving, but if she had grapefruit boobs and raccoon eyes, she was deliriously happy.Toni Morrison
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The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.Toni Morrison
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“How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked.Toni Morrison
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Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’Toni Morrison
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The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.Toni Morrison
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At some point in life the world's beauty is enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enoughToni Morrison
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A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillmentToni Morrison
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We die, that may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That would be the measure of our lives.Toni Morrison
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And she had nothing to fall back on; not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of profound desolation of her reality, she may very well have invented herself.Toni Morrison
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.Toni Morrison
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I don't know everything, I just do everything.Toni Morrison
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Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Toni Morrison
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Chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Toni Morrison
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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.Toni Morrison
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.Toni Morrison
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Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community—everybody—to raise a child.Toni Morrison
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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.Toni Morrison
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.Toni Morrison
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Toni Morrison
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Poison is like the drowned; it always floats.Toni Morrison
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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison
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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. Toni Morrison
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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.Toni Morrison
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.Toni Morrison