Author Name

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

Author : Toni Morrison

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

Author : Toni Morrison

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.

Author : Toni Morrison

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

Author : Toni Morrison

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.

Author : Toni Morrison

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Author : Toni Morrison

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Author : Toni Morrison

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Author : Toni Morrison

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.

Author : Toni Morrison

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.

Author : Toni Morrison