The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison Power
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. -Toni Morrison Money
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. -Toni Morrison Beauty
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. -Toni Morrison Family
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. -Toni Morrison Nature
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. -Toni Morrison Women
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. -Toni Morrison Friendship
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. -Toni Morrison Equality
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. -Toni Morrison Money
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. -Toni Morrison Art
