I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.
Toni MorrisonAlong with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
Toni MorrisonWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni MorrisonBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
Toni Morrison