Toni Morrison Quotes

• If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
• You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
• She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
• A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
• Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University. 

• In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
• All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. 
• You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it