All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison
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
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
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. – Wislawa Szymborska