Toni Morrison Quotes.

11. "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

12. "Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder"
- Quote by Toni Morrison

13. "If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

14. "Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

15. "Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

16. "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."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

17. "I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my head. I always thought that women could do a lot of things. All the women I knew did nine or ten things at one time. I always understood that women worked, they went to church, they managed their houses, they managed somebody else's houses, they raised their children, they raised somebody else's children, they taught. I wouldn't say it's not hard, but why wouldn't it be? All important things are hard."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

18. "I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

19. "True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself."
- Quote by Toni Morrison

20. "I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."
- Quote by Toni Morrison