Toni Morrison

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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

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.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.