Toni Morrison Quotes

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

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.

New York is the last true city.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Bit by bit ... she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

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.