Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Quotes

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

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

Lonely was much better than alone.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.