“If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
Toni Morrison Quotes
1931 – 2019
Nobel Prize-winning American novelist whose work explored Black American experience with unmatched depth and lyricism. Author of Beloved, Song of Solomon, and other towering works.
25 quotesAbout Toni Morrison on Wikipedia
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
“A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.”
“You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured.”
“Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.”
“Racial ignorance is a prison from which there is no escape because there’re no doors.”
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
