Top 51 Quotes by Toni Morrison

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

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

I like marriage. The idea.

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?

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

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

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

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

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