Morrison

Toni Morrison is one of the best authors. Period! Here's what she said...

"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."

" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."

"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."

"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

"I get angry about things, then go on and work."

"I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

"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."

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

"Love

is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."

"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

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.

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

“The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend”

"Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this."

The highlighted ones are my favorites. Which are yours?