She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
Toni Morrison[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
Toni MorrisonDon't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
Toni MorrisonAll the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too.
Toni Morrison