“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, Success, inspiration
“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, Ownership
“Today is always here. Tomorrow, never.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: present, Future, Today, tomorrow
“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Imagination, Goals
“Something that is loved is never lost.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, lost, Relationships, marriages
“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, books.google.comTagged: beauty, Photography, Painting, Memories
“He can't value you more than you value yourself.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Value, Relationships, Love, Boyfriend
“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: sister, Siblings, Family
“You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfucking life!”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Life, live life, enjoy life, inspiration
“It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Laughter, giggling, Happiness
“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Relationships, Dating
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Books, Reading, Writing
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Makeup, Appearance
“The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: human, strength, danger, Strong
“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? Or would you take it?”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Love, Hate
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Worth, Value
“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Men, Power, gender
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Free, Freedom, Choices
“Lonely was much better than alone.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Lonely, Alone, Friendship, Relationships
“Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: meanness, kindness, risks
“Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling. I don't think it's any of that. It's helpless... it's absence of control.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Anger, emotions, helpless, Passion
“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Artists, Art, danger
“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, Black and White, Feelings
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Beer, Personality, Drinking
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Surrender, Optimism, carefree
“You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What k…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Colors, Darkness, Black, shades
“Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Jealousy, Envy, Feelings
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Violence, Passion, Freedom
“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that pa…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Comfort, convenience, hotels, Home
“Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, stupidity, Violence, wicked