If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

- Toni Morrison

You are your best thing

- Toni Morrison

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

- Toni Morrison

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it…

- Toni Morrison

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

- Toni Morrison

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevole…

- Toni Morrison

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free,…

- Toni Morrison

There 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 civiliza…

- Toni Morrison