Morrison, Toni Filmography

• Les Carnets de route de François Busnel
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Public Speaking
  2010, role: actress
• The Black List: Volume One
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Legends Ball
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Beloved
  1998, role: writer
• Princeton: Images of a University
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Toni Morrison:

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

"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."

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

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."

"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."

"The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend"

"(Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion—because hatred is involved in it, too."

"Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it"

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."

"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."

"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"

"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth."

"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."

"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."

"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."