Famous Quotes by Toni Morrison

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

When you’re true to yourself, you’re original.

Her bangles clinked like laughter in the air, a sound that lingered long after she had gone.

Make a difference about something other than yourself.

I tell my students, 'If you’re going to write, then you write about what you know. If you don’t know it, then go find it.'

You are your best thing. You are. You are your best thing.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

It’s not about being free. It’s about living as though you’re free. It’s about acting on the belief that you are free.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the things that weigh you down.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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

The idea of the human spirit being bound by a notion of race is something I try to undo.

Children should not have to sacrifice so that the world can work. The world should work so that children do not have to sacrifice.