Buy yourself some red silk pajamas, surrender to the air, and ride it.

Love is, or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

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.

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

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

Quotes by: Toni Morrison