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51 quotes by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She was also commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in...
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I like marriage. The idea.

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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

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Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

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

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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.

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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is... →

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

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

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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.

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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to... →

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