I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
Toni MorrisonIf you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
Toni MorrisonNo gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
Toni MorrisonListen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.
Toni Morrison