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

Toni Morrison Quotes

American - Novelist Born: February 18, 1931

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

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

Nature, Water, Memory

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. Toni Morrison

Book, Want, You

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, Good, Man

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. - Toni Morrison

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni Morrison

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. Toni Morrison

Work, People, Done

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Toni Morrison

Smiling, People, Black

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. Toni Morrison

Why, Difficult, Handle

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, Equality, Me

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, People, Rich

Make a difference about something other than yourselves. Toni Morrison

Make A Difference, About

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, Self, Strange

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. Toni Morrison

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

Book, Want, You

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. Toni Morrison

People, Believe, Black

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Toni Morrison

Art, Black, Literature

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison

People, Thought, Person

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, Think

I like marriage. The idea. Toni Morrison

Funny, Marriage, Idea

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. Toni Morrison

American, Color, Immigrant

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. Toni Morrison

Time, Short, Book

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison

Life, Language, Meaning

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? Toni Morrison

Sky, Words, Moon

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. Toni Morrison

Moment, Black, You

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

Life, Beauty, World

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

Pain, Words, Same

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Toni Morrison

War, People, Black

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