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Toni Morrison Quotes

American - Novelist | February 18, 1931 -

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

Ride You Air Could

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Book You Want Write Must Been

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Make A Difference Difference Something

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

Nothing Why More Difficult Handle

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Yourself Self Ownership One Thing

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art Black Tolerance Literature Form

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Moment Black You Find White Out

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Work Anger Angry Go Things Get

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Nature Water Memory Trying Perfect

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.

People Thought Person Insult Never

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.

Friendship Good Friend Woman Man Me

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.

People City Black Violence Place

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