Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison More Quotes by Toni Morrison More Quotes From Toni Morrison I always know the ending; that's where I start. Toni Morrison knows Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door. Toni Morrison awakemiserydoors You are your best thing Toni Morrison best-thingsinspiring I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas. Toni Morrison junkclothesideas Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. Toni Morrison sad-loveinspiringlove I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are Toni Morrison decisionsafewant Love is never any better than the lover. Toni Morrison loverslove-is If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem. Toni Morrison kneeswhitepeople Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. Toni Morrison definedbeloveddefinitions Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one. Toni Morrison nextlittleschildren When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence right that minute it's never going to show up again. And it isn't. But it doesn't matter-another one will, and it'll probably be better. And I don't mind writing badly for a couple of days because I know I can fix it-and fix it again and again and again, and it will be better. Toni Morrison couplewritingthinking When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for. Toni Morrison lighteyechildren I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. Toni Morrison costjourneyart Make a difference about something other than yourselves. Toni Morrison womendifferencesinspirational Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. Toni Morrison blackfearboys There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried. Toni Morrison magicblackmen I dream a dream that dreams back at me. Toni Morrison dream From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. Toni Morrison destinyviewswaiting Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Toni Morrison classwarcountry True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself. Toni Morrison jobschildrenfall
