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