Top 51 Quotes by Toni Morrison

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?

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

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

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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