Quotes about Awareness
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
— Toni Morrison
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
— Toni Morrison
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
— Toni Morrison
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
— Toni Morrison
Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder
— Toni Morrison
she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
— Toni Morrison
some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.
— Toni Morrison
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
— Toni Morrison
None of them knew the downright pleasure of enchantment, of not suspecting but knowing the things behind things.
— Toni Morrison
Funny how you lose sight of some things and memory others.
— Toni Morrison
She didn't even know she had a neck until Jude remarked on it, or that her smile was anything but the spreading of her lips until he saw it as a small miracle.
— Toni Morrison
At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough
— Toni Morrison