Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.
Toni MorrisonWhen you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
Toni MorrisonRace is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
Toni MorrisonThere is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
Toni MorrisonTrue the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.
Toni Morrison