Toni Morrison Quotes
Most popular Toni Morrison Quotes
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
The function of freedom is to free somebody else.
Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.
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.
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.
A cow stands in clover. When she is milked, that is her work; when she is merely eating, that is her play.... Not a handsome or elegant analogy, but it approximates for me the habit of reading—standing in a world of clover, the eating of which is occasionally utilitarian, usually nourishing.