Top 51 Quotes by Toni Morrison

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.