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Toni Morrison Quotes

American - Novelist | February 18, 1931 -

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

Book You Want Write Must Been

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

People Black Understanding Smiling

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Life Language Die Meaning Measure

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Work People Done Shaping Should How

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

War People Black Country Class Used

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Power Trust Think You Dream Little

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.

Family Man Broken Think Problem

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

Time Job People Long Stop Young

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Writing World Done Everything Been

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

Love Children People Would Even

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

First Because Read Wanted Novel

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Community Alone Children Child You

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