The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. - Toni Morrison 1 Share Now -
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. - Toni Morrison 2 Share Now -
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. - Toni Morrison 3 Share Now -
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. - Toni Morrison 4 Share Now -
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. - Toni Morrison 7 Share Now -
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. - Toni Morrison 8 Share Now -
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. - Toni Morrison 10 Share Now -
