{"id":12039,"date":"2020-05-12T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/?p=12039"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:28:43","slug":"toni-morrison-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/toni-morrison-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"107 Toni Morrison Quotes to Inspire Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you captivated by the works of one of the greatest literary voices of our present-day and age? As a Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner, Toni Morrison has written countless groundbreaking works during her lifetime. To celebrate the towering novelist, we have created this list of Toni Morrison quotes with some of her most powerful ideas and thoughts. Enjoy! And be sure not to miss our collection of empowering Maya Angelou quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With her novels, Toni Morrison explored the grievances of black women in America. She was critically acclaimed as a visionary force and widely considered as a beacon in African-American culture.<\/p>\n

“At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.\u201d
\nToni Morrison<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The works of Toni Morrison are often dreamlike and characterized by a nonlinear writing style. She jumps forward and backward in time and interlinks myth and the supernatural with everyday life in her stories.<\/p>\n

\"Toni
Enjoy this heartfelt collection of wonderful Toni Morrison quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The revelation of intriguing insights about Black lives and what it means to be an African-American woman is a defining characteristic of all her works. Instead of focusing on one particular genre, she invigorated her literary portfolio with a mixture of poetry, drama, and love stories.<\/p>\n

107 Toni Morrison Quotes to Inspire Your Life<\/h2>\n

It can be quite difficult to keep up with all the groundbreaking works Toni Morrison has created throughout her lifetime. Aside from her 11 novels, she also authored five children\u2019s books and nine nonfiction books. That\u2019s why we created this list of Toni Morrison quotes with her most remarkable statements to give you a better overview of her thinking.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our collection of Toni Morrison quotes<\/h3>\n

1.<\/h4>\n

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

2.<\/h4>\n

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Dream<\/p>\n

3.<\/h4>\n

“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

4.<\/h4>\n

“I don\u2019t think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Appreciate<\/p>\n

5.<\/h4>\n

“Now that I’m 84, I remember everything as a mistake, and I regret everything.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

6.<\/h4>\n

“Something that is loved is never lost.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Something<\/p>\n

7.<\/h4>\n

“I remember very clearly I was writing with a pencil. I was sitting on a couch, writing with a pencil, trying to think up something and remembering what I just described.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Sitting<\/p>\n

8.<\/h4>\n

“Writing, for me, is the big protection.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

9.<\/h4>\n

“Love. We have to embrace ourselves.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Embrace<\/p>\n

10.<\/h4>\n

“Have a sense of humor; deliver something that somebody can use.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

11.<\/h4>\n

“There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

12.<\/h4>\n

“It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"More<\/p>\n

13.<\/h4>\n

“Free yourself from baggage and vanity and all sorts of things and deliver a better self.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Free<\/p>\n

14.<\/h4>\n

“Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Love<\/p>\n

15.<\/h4>\n

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Sheer<\/p>\n

16.<\/h4>\n

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

17.<\/h4>\n

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Definitions<\/p>\n

18.<\/h4>\n

“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

19.<\/h4>\n

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

20.<\/h4>\n

“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Love<\/p>\n

21.<\/h4>\n

“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

22.<\/h4>\n

“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.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

24.<\/h4>\n

“Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

25.<\/h4>\n

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Love<\/p>\n

26.<\/h4>\n

“Anger… it’s a paralyzing emotion… you can’t get anything done.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

27.<\/h4>\n

“Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

28.<\/h4>\n

“I\u2019m writing for black people.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

29.<\/h4>\n

“Cowards are so dangerous. It\u2019s that quality that informs serious hostility.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Cowards<\/p>\n

30.<\/h4>\n

“Writing is really a way of thinking \u2013 not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

31.<\/h4>\n

“Mother never rejected or accepted anybody based on race or color or religion or any of that. Everybody was an individual whom she approved of or disapproved of based on her perception of them as individuals.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

32.<\/h4>\n

“Scientifically there\u2019s no such thing as race, Bride, so racism without race is a choice.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

33.<\/h4>\n

“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

34.<\/h4>\n

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

35.<\/h4>\n

“I used to be a little plant thief. You know, if I were someplace where there was something growing, I would snip it off, take it home and plant it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

36.<\/h4>\n

“If you\u2019re open, you can rely on the lived wisdom of the elderly. It\u2019s not the book learning, it\u2019s the lived wisdom.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

37.<\/h4>\n

“What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"What's<\/p>\n

38.<\/h4>\n

“What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

39.<\/h4>\n

“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

40.<\/h4>\n

“[Beauty] can destabilise you if that\u2019s all you have and that\u2019s all you care about and that\u2019s where your success comes from.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

41.<\/h4>\n

“I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color – light, black, in-between – as the marker for race is really an error.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

42.<\/h4>\n

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

43.<\/h4>\n

“My mother had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life. She could sing anything – classical, jazz, blues, opera.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

44.<\/h4>\n

“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose \u2013 not to need permission for desire \u2013 well now that was freedom.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Love<\/p>\n

45.<\/h4>\n

“He wants to put his story next to hers.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"His<\/p>\n

46.<\/h4>\n

“He can’t value you more than you value yourself.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

47.<\/h4>\n

“I write the way women have babies. You don’t know it’s going to be like that. If you did, there’s no way you would go through with it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

48.<\/h4>\n

“I joined a group of faculty and writers who met, I think, once a month to read to each other and critique each other. They had really, really good lunches, really good food during these meetings. But they wouldn’t let you continue to come if you were just reading old stuff. So I had to think up something new if I was going to continue to have this really good food and really good company outside of the – my colleagues. So I started writing.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

49.<\/h4>\n

“On the campus, where I felt safe and welcome, I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was real.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

50.<\/h4>\n

“So much contemporary fiction, even when it\u2019s well written is sort of \u2026 self-referential. I used to teach creative writing at Princeton and I would say \u2018Don\u2019t do that. Don\u2019t write about your little life\u2019.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

51.<\/h4>\n

“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

52.<\/h4>\n

“It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

53.<\/h4>\n

“Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? Or would you take it?”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

54.<\/h4>\n

“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Surrender<\/p>\n

55.<\/h4>\n

“I didn’t really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

56.<\/h4>\n

“I’m not writing to bring anything to the public consciousness per se, I’m writing because I want to talk to you. Just me and you.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

57.<\/h4>\n

“Everything that I’ve ever done, within the writing world, has been to expand upon articulation, rather than trying to close it. To open doors, sometimes, without even closing the book-leaving the endings open for reinterpretation and some ambiguity.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

58.<\/h4>\n

“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

59.<\/h4>\n

“There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

60.<\/h4>\n

“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"We<\/p>\n

61.<\/h4>\n

“People don\u2019t want to get hurt. They don\u2019t want to be left. They don\u2019t want to be abandoned, you see. It\u2019s as though love is always some present you\u2019ve given somebody else. And it\u2019s really a present you\u2019re giving yourself.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

62.<\/h4>\n

“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

63.<\/h4>\n

“It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

64.<\/h4>\n

“When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

65.<\/h4>\n

“When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

66.<\/h4>\n

“When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

67.<\/h4>\n

“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Happiness<\/p>\n

68.<\/h4>\n

“I had a terrible sense of reluctance about dwelling upon the topic of slavery. Then I realized how very little I really knew about it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

69.<\/h4>\n

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

70.<\/h4>\n

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

71.<\/h4>\n

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, but not as a serious and rigorous art form.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

72.<\/h4>\n

“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

73.<\/h4>\n

“I dedicated the book to the more than 60 million black men and women who died as a result of slavery.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

74.<\/h4>\n

“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

75.<\/h4>\n

“You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

76.<\/h4>\n

“They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

77.<\/h4>\n

“Ohio has always held a special place in my heart since it’s where I grew up. It also offers me an escape from stereotypical black settings since it is neither a plantation nor a ghetto.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

78.<\/h4>\n

“I get angry about things, then go on and work.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

79.<\/h4>\n

“People tend to think that when black people leave home, they are weak, that they’re leaving their children.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

80.<\/h4>\n

“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.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

81.<\/h4>\n

“Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

82.<\/h4>\n

“I’ve never been able to take positions that are closed.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

83.<\/h4>\n

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

84.<\/h4>\n

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Because<\/p>\n

85.<\/h4>\n

“The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

86.<\/h4>\n

“The difficult part is trying to create characters that are not easily dismissed. Sometimes, even people that you admire. In other words, people that are just like you and me. My job, is to make sure that my characters are people that are just like you and me, because I cannot think of anyone less complicated than that.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

87.<\/h4>\n

“To find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

88.<\/h4>\n

“Some books should not be made into films. Many of the books that I’ve read throughout my life have impacted me in such a way that films have not.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

89.<\/h4>\n

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

90.<\/h4>\n

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

91.<\/h4>\n

“Correct what you can; learn from what you can\u2019t.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

92.<\/h4>\n

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

93.<\/h4>\n

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Claiming<\/p>\n

94.<\/h4>\n

“There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover\u2019s inward eye.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

95.<\/h4>\n

“Lonely was much better than alone.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

96.<\/h4>\n

“I dream a dream that dreams back at me”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

97.<\/h4>\n

“When I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

98.<\/h4>\n

“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind–wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one’s own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

99.<\/h4>\n

“Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

100.<\/h4>\n

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another \u2013 physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

101.<\/h4>\n

“He can’t value you more than you value yourself.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

102.<\/h4>\n

“Tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

103.<\/h4>\n

“The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

104.<\/h4>\n

“You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

105.<\/h4>\n

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

106.<\/h4>\n

“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. Don’t.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

107.<\/h4>\n

“You are your best thing.”
\nToni Morrison<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We hope you enjoyed this collection of Toni Morrison quotes.<\/p>\n

The selection of Toni Morrison\u2019s works in the above gives you a good overview of the life and legacy of the acclaimed writer. Just like her various works, these quotes are a diverse blend of myth, realism, magic, and fantasy. While some of her thoughts will inspire you to fight for your dreams, others highlight the misery countless individuals had to suffer from in the past.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite quote of the groundbreaking novelist?<\/h3>\n

Is there one particular thought by Toni Morrison that mesmerizes you whenever you read it? We\u2019re excited to hear from you in the common section below.<\/p>\n

Stay victorious!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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