Toni Morrison

You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

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

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

What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?

The function of freedom is to free someone else

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”

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

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.