Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ainโt a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he canโt chop down because theyโre inside.
Toni MorrisonI merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
Toni MorrisonLove is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
Toni Morrison