Toni Morrison Quotes

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

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? - 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. - Toni Morrison

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. - Toni Morrison

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

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

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend. - Toni Morrison

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. - Toni Morrison

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