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

Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?

— Toni Morrison

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

— Toni Morrison

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

— Toni Morrison

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

— Toni Morrison

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

— Toni Morrison

From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves.

— Toni Morrison

God puzzled her, and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

— Toni Morrison

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

— Toni Morrison

Good for you. More it hurt better it is. Can't anything heal without pain, you know.

— Toni Morrison