TOP 10 Toni Morrison quotes

10

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

9

You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

8

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

7

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

6

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

5

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

4

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

3

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

2

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

1

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.