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I like marriage. The idea.

Marriage Concept, Personal Reflection, Social Bond, Marriage, Reflection, Bond

I like marriage The idea

I like marriage The idea

I like marriage The idea

Toni Morrison’s Quotes On Topics

More Toni Morrison Quotes

“Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn’t even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.”

Betrayal, Relationships, Love, Trust, Perception, Friendship

“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.”

Pain, Emotion, Storm, Intensity, Reflection, Strength

“What kind of love is it that requires an angel and only an angel for its commitment?”

Love, Idealism, Commitment, Perfection, Expectations, Relationships

“I stood at the border, stood at the edge and claimed it as central. I claimed it as central, and let the rest of the world move over to where I was.”

Power, Identity, Boundary, Claim, Belonging, Perspective

“He couldn’t stay there surrounded by a passel of slaves whose silence made him imagine an avalanche seen from a great distance. No sound, just the knowledge of a roar he could not hear.”

Historical Oppression, Silent Suffering, Powerful Imagery, Oppression, Silence, History

“I sang “O Holy Night” in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.”

Music, Family, Praise, Performance, Memory, Imperfection

“My nature is a quiet one, anyway. As a child I was considered respectful; as a young woman I was called discreet. Later on I was thought to have the wisdom maturity brings.”

Quietness, Respect, Discretion, Wisdom, Maturity, Self Reflection

“I type in one place, but I write all over the house.”

Writing Habits, Creative Spaces, Author’s Process, Writing, Habits, Creativity

“Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don’t get nothing for it.”

Kindness Risk, Human Actions, Emotional Costs, Kindness, Risk, Behavior

“If you take racism away from certain people – I mean vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist – if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible – misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.”

Racism, Identity, Pain, Struggle, Self-awareness, Society

“You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.”

Language Power, Communication, Expression, Power, Communication, Expression

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.”

False Bravery, Social Hypocrisy, Emotional Facade, Bravery, Hypocrisy, Facade

“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.”

Expression, Emotion, Love, Communication, Family, Joy

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”

Emotional Bond, Preemptive Loss, Fond Memories, Bond, Loss, Memories

“I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.”

Black Mothers, Unwed Mothers, Social Critique, Morality, Poverty, Racism

“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.”

Regret, Love, People, Reflection, Connection, Life

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”

Oppression, Language, Violence, Knowledge, Power, Society

“Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilities; it’s choosing the ones you want.”

Freedom, Responsibility, Choice, Empowerment, Independence, Life Decisions

“Beginning Beloved with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.”

Narrative Structure, Symbolism, Identity Creation, Structure, Symbolism, Creation

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

Literary Art, Cultural Misrepresentation, Black Literature, Art, Literature, Culture