Its been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because its about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. – Toni Morrison
I dont think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless theyre black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. Thats what were upset about. – Toni Morrison
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I dont 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
I dont think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. Its perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. – Toni Morrison
Womens rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. – Toni Morrison
At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. – Toni Morrison
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. – Toni Morrison
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison
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. – Toni Morrison
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. – Toni Morrison
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison
I like marriage. The idea. – Toni Morrison
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. – Toni Morrison
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. – Toni Morrison
Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down. – Toni Morrison
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. – Toni Morrison
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison
