Toni Morrison's profound wisdom continues to inspire and captivate. Her quotes delve deep into the human experience, awakening our hearts and minds. If you're seeking a dose of her remarkable insight, I recommend checking out this collection of Toni Morrison quotes.
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."
"You are your best thing."
"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough."
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
"You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back."
"Love is never any better than the lover."
"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
"Lonely was much better than alone."
"Love is divine only and difficult always."
"Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"You your best thing, Sethe. You are."
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
"Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me."
"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
"You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right—that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love."
"What you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.'"
"I'm interested in how women who choose to write and women who choose to give of themselves on the page deal with the interruption of domesticity."
"You are your best thing."
"If I could just get myself out of the way, I could do it."
"You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself."
These quotes capture Toni Morrison's incredible insights, storytelling prowess, and thought-provoking reflections on life, love, and identity.
