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“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Toni Morrison

The Guardian (29 January 1992)

“You are your best thing”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Variant: You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
Source: Beloved

“Love is never any better than the lover.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”

Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon (1977)

“Along 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 Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

Toni Morrison

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Variant: If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.
Source: Song of Solomon (1977)

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“He wants to put his story next to hers.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“There is really nothing more to say — except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye (1969)

“It was a fine cry — loud and long — but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula (1973)

“Lonely was much better than alone.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth,, March 9, 1998]”

Toni Morrison

“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Beloved (1987)

“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it… It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon