Toni Morrison Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Moving, Home

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

• I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Home, Two

• They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

  Toni Morrison

  Summer, Girlfriend, Laughter

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

  Toni Morrison

  Memories, Home, People

• My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

  Toni Morrison

  Home, Thinking, Space

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