you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.


Toni Morrison

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON
Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON
If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON
Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON
Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON
Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
JAMILA WOODS
I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON
We're right between the four lakes and two rivers.
BILL GOTTSCHALK
The qualifying went from two laps to three laps and then to four laps, stuff like that, hoping I'd m...
DAVID PEARSON
I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But a...
LOUIS SACHAR
Cohen looked at the forest of lances and pennants. Hundreds of thousands of men looked like quite a ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON
Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON
Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He wa...
ANDREW KLAVAN
There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
"No way," Glory said. "...
TUI T. SUTHERLAND
No. I got hit right in the nipple. Not fun. He said on the mound he didn't mean to hit me. He just p...
ERIC HINSKE
I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin...
JUNOT DIAZ
Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISON
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON
When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ...
SUNIL YAPA
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac...
ANNE LAMOTT
You got to hand it to Nate Samson. He got a big hit for them. The game was on the line and Forest go...
DALE HALL
You went back in time,” he repeated, “and you expect his cell phone to work?”
“Well, no...
C.E. MURPHY
That was huge. We were in a zone and he brought them back. He was three or four feet behind the line...
BRIAN CLODI
There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
"No way," Glory ...
TUI T. SUTHERLAND
Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, ...
BIBLE
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said th...
BIBLE
Jesse Morrison came up and drove one in, and Charlie came up behind him and drove two in, which was ...
CRAIG BEESLEY
All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two.” He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right...
PETER SHAFFER
There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR
The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He ...
ELIOT BRENNER
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plu...
JOHN UPDIKE
Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.
ERIN HUNTER
I love swimming"
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a li...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Rip originally said he didn't want two days in between, but this is a blessing. We've got a little b...
ARNIE KANDER
When they're four, five, six-thousand feet up in the air, there's nothing you can do for them.
DAN STEVENS
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m...
MOHSIN HAMID
It looks like he wrapped his arms around the rear wheel shaft of the car between the back two tires ...
RACHEL HARRIS
The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quiete...
DALE MAYS
We match up with them well, but we got to put four quarters together instead of just two.
BUD HENDRIX
Evidently he had been asleep and his wife said she heard noises outside. He got up, got his weapon a...
ROXANNE WALKER
Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not w...
MARK BEAUREGARD
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy ...
BIBLE
too much morality, too little sense.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
[talking about his new wife, Laura]
Angus the Groom: Ignore her. She's drunk. At least I hope s...
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Fiona: Where's Gareth?
Matthew: Torturing Americans.
Fiona: How thoughtful of him.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Tom: The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
I always just hoped that, that I'd meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope the look...
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essen...
HENRY MARKRAM
I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared,...
LAURA ANDERSON KURK
Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO
You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
TONI MORRISON
I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN
He called them up and told them that we'd be available for any day they wanted. We got fortunate and...
BEN MCCLELLAND
In the second quarter we opened up a lead and got a little nonchalant. Once they gained a little mom...
TOM ROBERGE
I told Father Bob we had 600-700 riders. ... He was quiet, then he said, 'Oh boy. I've got to get mo...
CATHY MELANSON
He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. ...
STEPHEN KING
We're looking for a male, white, who's between 25 and 30 years of age, about 6 feet tall with thin b...
PAT CAMDEN
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON
But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON
I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on ...
DENIS O'HARE
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose betwe...
ANNE ROIPHE
If we rested three or four players and then got beaten by two points, we'd be kicking ourselves.
CRAIG BELLAMY
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books t...
JAN KARON
He said that on four occasions between Christmas and New Year's Eve he went to strip wire out of the...
SHELLY WILLIAMS
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN
A three year old put his shoes on by himself. His mother noticed the left was on the right foot. She...
UNKNOWN
How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him.
There was a pause. At last he said, 'Why...
NATALIE BABBITT
They got a manure machine in there,” Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole...
SANDRA NEIL WALLACE
Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had d...
WINNIE THE POOH
Jeff Loria in Houston (two weeks ago) came up to me and said, 'Don't pay attention to what you heard...
CARLOS DELGADO
Scully and I will be back to relieve you in eight hours if Tooms doesn't show,' Mulder promised. 'Ri...
ELLEN STEIBER
Vagina man,’ said Bunny, and his two colleagues went quiet and nodded in silent agreement.
NICK CAVE
They drain you sometimes. They really do.
"What's it all about then mate? What's the secret of...
KARL WIGGINS
It was up for grabs, it was back and forth. We got up four, then they got up by one, and they were j...
DAVE NUTTING
They're going to see some sights. Everything between Mile 3 and through 12 1/2 was under between fou...
BILL BURKE
I walked to Montevallo.'
'Forty miles?!'
'Forty-two,' he corrected me. 'Well. Forty-two th...
JOHN GREEN
When you don't have to shoot anything from more than three or four feet, you better win. We couldn't...
CURT DOBBS
Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE
Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed ...
WANDA SYKES
It's nice and quiet. That's the way I like it. I don't like a lot of noise.
RAFAEL BETANCOURT
We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to...
JENNIFER SCOTT
I walked in there and he told me, he said, 'You got something wrong with you besides a cold.' He sai...
HENRY HALL
Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
MARK SHAND
Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet.
WENDY INSINGER
So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which ti...
WILLIAM ADAMS
He (Davis) said I could play the three and the two. He also said I'd play 30-plus minutes a game thi...
CEM DINC
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
HEBBEL
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

More Toni Morrison

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became tr...
TONI MORRISON
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Lov...
TONI MORRISON
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman w...
TONI MORRISON
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
TONI MORRISON
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an in...
TONI MORRISON
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for...
TONI MORRISON
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the f...
TONI MORRISON
You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
TONI MORRISON
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
TONI MORRISON
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON
He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON
Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
TONI MORRISON
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
TONI MORRISON
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
TONI MORRISON
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
TONI MORRISON
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
TONI MORRISON
I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. TONI MORRISON I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contemp...
TONI MORRISON
You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I ...
TONI MORRISON
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets e...
TONI MORRISON
Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...
TONI MORRISON
Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of tha...
TONI MORRISON
Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON
Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON
Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON
If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON
Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...
TONI MORRISON
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the r...
TONI MORRISON
Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
TONI MORRISON
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have ...
TONI MORRISON
Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
TONI MORRISON
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON
He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON
You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or eve...
TONI MORRISON
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream bo...
TONI MORRISON
And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its...
TONI MORRISON
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defens...
TONI MORRISON
It's nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Their ecstasy is more a leaf-sig...
TONI MORRISON
I’m crazy about this City.

Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half....
TONI MORRISON
the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i...
TONI MORRISON
Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets ...
TONI MORRISON
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white pe...
TONI MORRISON
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this cou...
TONI MORRISON
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, d...
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON
In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ...
TONI MORRISON
Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo...
TONI MORRISON
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about ...
TONI MORRISON
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISON
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal ...
TONI MORRISON
Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
TONI MORRISON
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no...
TONI MORRISON
The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
TONI MORRISON
Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON
Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON
It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of ...
TONI MORRISON
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles...
TONI MORRISON
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
TONI MORRISON
(Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON
Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that...
TONI MORRISON
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON
(Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON
Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eigh...
TONI MORRISON
Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where w...
TONI MORRISON
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer
TONI MORRISON
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. ...
TONI MORRISON
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to wri...
TONI MORRISON
Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history conn...
TONI MORRISON
florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lin...
TONI MORRISON
What is the nature of Othering's comfort, its allure, its power (social, psychological, or economica...
TONI MORRISON
Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu...
TONI MORRISON
Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has...
TONI MORRISON
All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beaut...
TONI MORRISON
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...
TONI MORRISON
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; ...
TONI MORRISON
I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost co...
TONI MORRISON
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that ...
TONI MORRISON
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must ...
TONI MORRISON
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...
TONI MORRISON
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISON
Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...
TONI MORRISON
He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe....
TONI MORRISON
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...
TONI MORRISON
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one ...
TONI MORRISON
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the s...
TONI MORRISON
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint...
TONI MORRISON
The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fr...
TONI MORRISON
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction tha...
TONI MORRISON
But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
TONI MORRISON
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other ti...
TONI MORRISON
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy...
TONI MORRISON
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you ca...
TONI MORRISON
Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far ...
TONI MORRISON
You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
TONI MORRISON
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the...
TONI MORRISON
Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON
You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
TONI MORRISON
It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire an...
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON
When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma...
TONI MORRISON
Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dange...
TONI MORRISON
Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being ali...
TONI MORRISON
Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISON
They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lov...
TONI MORRISON
Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON
Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If ...
TONI MORRISON
if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
TONI MORRISON
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this mo...
TONI MORRISON
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a livi...
TONI MORRISON
That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, o...
TONI MORRISON
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the m...
TONI MORRISON
Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
TONI MORRISON
Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON
See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a...
TONI MORRISON
Her passions were narrow but deep.
TONI MORRISON
God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
TONI MORRISON
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
TONI MORRISON
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...
TONI MORRISON
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
TONI MORRISON
Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed raven...
TONI MORRISON
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON
...the change was adjustment without improvement.
TONI MORRISON
Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON
We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON
Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON
How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON
Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON
Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON
All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON
It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON
How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON
Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON
..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE
Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE
I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE
I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO
My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON
I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON
Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON
Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON
I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE
The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON
The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE
Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON
People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE
Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON
Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE
It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS
I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE
After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE
Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE
Hello, sex on legs
TONI ALEO
Discussions are ongoing, but we are not in a position to report any new developments.
TONI SIMONETTI
I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE
I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE
Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE