Quotes from Toni Morrison
I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
- Toni Morrison
At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.
- 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
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
- Toni Morrison
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Toni Morrison
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
- Toni Morrison
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
- Toni Morrison
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
- Toni Morrison
Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love.
- Toni Morrison
Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.
- Toni Morrison
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
- Toni Morrison
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
- Toni Morrison