Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.”

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

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

“I like marriage. The idea.”

“Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.”

“My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.”

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”

“I get angry about things, then go on and work.”