Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.”

“I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.”

“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”

“In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.”

“It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.”

“For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.”

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

“I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.”

“The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.”

“You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?”