Top 51 Quotes by Toni Morrison

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

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

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

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

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