And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.
Toni Morrison
Social Expectations, Self-sacrifice, Emotional Conflict, Expectations, Sacrifice, Conflict
Toni Morrison’s Quotes On Topics
Parenting Timing | Lost Dreams | Social Inclusion | Issues | Healing | Age | Expressive Depth | Solitary Struggles | Laughter Power | Shared Struggle | Cultural Validation | Personal Sacrifice | Inclusion | Silent Suffering | Self Realization | Childhood Perception | Surrender Strength | Emotional Simplicity | Self-respect | Human Actions | More
More Toni Morrison Quotes
“The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.” Toni Morrison
Mental Clarity, Perception, Insanity, Reality, Insight, Clarity
Toni Morrison Mental Clarity, Perception, Insanity, Reality, Insight, Clarity“I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ’em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.” Toni Morrison
Regret, Love, People, Reflection, Connection, Life
Toni Morrison Regret, Love, People, Reflection, Connection, Life“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.” Toni Morrison
Global Leadership, Peace Advocacy, Mandela Reflection, Leadership, Peace, Mandela
Toni Morrison Global Leadership, Peace Advocacy, Mandela Reflection, Leadership, Peace, Mandela“Let your face speak what’s in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I’m glad to see them.” Toni Morrison
Expression, Emotion, Love, Communication, Family, Joy
Toni Morrison Expression, Emotion, Love, Communication, Family, Joy“Let your face speak what’s in your heart.” Toni Morrison
Authentic Expression, Emotional Honesty, Personal Integrity, Expression, Honesty, Integrity
Toni Morrison Authentic Expression, Emotional Honesty, Personal Integrity, Expression, Honesty, Integrity“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Toni Morrison
Freedom, Liberation, Selflessness, Empowerment, Change, Responsibility
Toni Morrison Freedom, Liberation, Selflessness, Empowerment, Change, Responsibility“When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. ‘Perhaps I made it up,’ she thought. Then it came to her – the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. She sat on the edge of the bed thinking, ‘There aren’t any more new songs and I have sung all the ones there are. I have sung them all. I have sung all the songs there are.” Toni Morrison
Memory, Music, Identity, Reflection, Creativity, Repetition
Toni Morrison Memory, Music, Identity, Reflection, Creativity, Repetition“The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.” Toni Morrison
Patriarchy, Feminism, Society, Power, Gender, Resistance
Toni Morrison Patriarchy, Feminism, Society, Power, Gender, Resistance“She cannot be lost because no one is looking for her.” Toni Morrison
Neglected Existence, Solitude Pain, Invisible Identity, Existence, Solitude, Identity
Toni Morrison Neglected Existence, Solitude Pain, Invisible Identity, Existence, Solitude, Identity“Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.” Toni Morrison
Religious Shallow, Faith Perception, Spiritual Depth, Shallow, Perception, Depth
Toni Morrison Religious Shallow, Faith Perception, Spiritual Depth, Shallow, Perception, Depth“Don’t let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.” Toni Morrison
Revolution, Change, Empowerment, Resistance, Society, Ideals
Toni Morrison Revolution, Change, Empowerment, Resistance, Society, Ideals“And when she stepped foot on free ground she could not believe that Halle knew what she didn’t; that Halle, who had never drawn one free breath, knew that there was nothing like it in this world. It scared her.” Toni Morrison
Freedom, Liberation, Fear, Identity, Self Realization, Fear Of Change
Toni Morrison Freedom, Liberation, Fear, Identity, Self Realization, Fear Of Change“Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.” Toni Morrison
Language, Expression, Freedom, Power, Emotion, Communication
Toni Morrison Language, Expression, Freedom, Power, Emotion, Communication“All art is knowing when to stop.” Toni Morrison
Creative Process, Artistic Control, Self-discipline, Process, Control, Discipline
Toni Morrison Creative Process, Artistic Control, Self-discipline, Process, Control, Discipline“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” Toni Morrison
Despair, Hope, Language, Action, Healing, Change
Toni Morrison Despair, Hope, Language, Action, Healing, Change“You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself.” Toni Morrison
Love, Power, Identity, Ownership, Relationships, Self-worth
Toni Morrison Love, Power, Identity, Ownership, Relationships, Self-worth“You accepted like a beast of burden the whip of a stranger’s curse and the mindless menace it holds along with the scar it leaves as a definition you spend your life refuting although that hateful word is only a slim line drawn on a shore and quickly dissolved in a seaworld any moment when an equally mindless wave fondles it like the accidental touch of a finger on a clarinet stop that the musician converts into silence in order to let the true note ring out loud.” Toni Morrison
Defeat, Oppression, Identity, Pain, Silence, Resilience
Toni Morrison Defeat, Oppression, Identity, Pain, Silence, Resilience“You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn’t take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.” Toni Morrison
Lost Eden, Deep Connection, Visual Poetry, Connection, Eden, Love
Toni Morrison Lost Eden, Deep Connection, Visual Poetry, Connection, Eden, Love