Toni Morrison

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#country #else #everybody #everybody else #means

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

— Toni Morrison

#dream #enter #little #positions #power

The function of freedom is to free someone else. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#responsibility #freedom

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

— Toni Morrison

#could #ride #surrendered #you

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

— Toni Morrison

#handle #how #more #must #nothing

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away ↗

— Toni Morrison

#love

Lonely was much better than alone. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#solitude #lonely

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#exclusion #inspiration #paradises #utopias #wishes

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#sula #mourning

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

#am #back #friend #gather #give