More quotes by Toni Morrison

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races."
"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."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."