Toni Morrison

Found 10 thoughts of Toni Morrison

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

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

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

I don't write -ist novels.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.