Toni Morrison Jazz Quotes

#1. ... he didn't needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

Toni Morrison

#2. I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Hugh Jackman

#3. Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

Andre Agassi

#4. People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

Andy Goldsworthy

#5. Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Toni Morrison

#6. He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.

Toni Morrison

#7. I don't want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man."
"Don't we all. Look. Be what you want
white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up - quicklike, and don't bring me no whiteboy sass."
Hunter's Hunter and Godlen Gray

Toni Morrison

#8. When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

Burning Spear

#9. You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Bea Arthur