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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. - Toni Morrison Quotes

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

American Novelist

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. - Toni Morrison Quotes

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

American Novelist

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. - Toni Morrison Quotes

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

American Novelist Books And Reading

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. - Toni Morrison Quotes

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

American Novelist Memory

(Love) is easily the most empty clichÃÂ©, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotionÃ¢â¬âbecause hatred is involved in it, too. - Toni Morrison Quotes

(Love) is easily the most empty clichÃÂ©, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotionÃ¢â¬âbecause hatred is involved in it, too.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. - Toni Morrison Quotes

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

American Novelist

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves. - Toni Morrison Quotes

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. - Toni Morrison Quotes

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

American Novelist

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it - Toni Morrison Quotes

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

(Love) is easily the most empty clichÃÂ©, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotionbecause hatred is involved in it, too. - Toni Morrison Quotes

(Love) is easily the most empty clichÃÂ©, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotionbecause hatred is involved in it, too.

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend - Toni Morrison Quotes

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. - Toni Morrison Quotes

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

American Novelist Pain

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

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

American Novelist

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. - Toni Morrison Quotes

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

American Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

American Novelist Imagination

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer - Toni Morrison Quotes

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. - Toni Morrison Quotes

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

American Novelist

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? - Toni Morrison Quotes

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

American Novelist

I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost comic obtuseness regarding women, ... generous; impractical; often wrong; always engaged; mindful of, and often amused by, his own power. - Toni Morrison Quotes

I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost comic obtuseness regarding women, ... generous; impractical; often wrong; always engaged; mindful of, and often amused by, his own power.

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous. - Toni Morrison Quotes

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Women's 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 Quotes

Women's 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.

American Novelist

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call ''literature'' is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call ''literature'' is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

Writers And Writing

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

American Novelist

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. - Toni Morrison Quotes

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

American Novelist

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