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

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Toni Morrison

I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison

I get angry about things, then go on and work.
Toni Morrison

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Toni Morrison

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Toni Morrison

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

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