The best Quotes by Toni Morrison

The best Quotes by Toni Morrison

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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.