Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Make a difference about something other than yourselves.”

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

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

“Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.”

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”

“I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.”

“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.”