Top 100 Toni Quotes
#1. The beauty of being an Author is, It's your story and you can write what ever you want.
Toni House
#2. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#3. You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!
Toni Sorenson
#4. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.
Dinaw Mengestu
#5. You love me."
He kept gazing upward, his answer coming softly. "Yeah. I do.
Toni Blake
#6. Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?
Toni Maguire
#7. Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.
Toni Sorenson
#8. When you're rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the Savior of Mankind.
Toni Sorenson
#9. In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.
Toni Packer
#10. A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.
Toni Sorenson
#11. There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race
scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct ... it has a social function, racism.
Toni Morrison
#12. What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
Toni Morrison
#13. Fitness means you "fit" into the life that you desire.
Toni Sorenson
#14. She was usually idling by the river bank, or gathering berries in a field when a someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood;
Toni Morrison
#15. I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.
Toni Braxton
#16. I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.
Toni Tennille
#17. I don't do the things other people call "play."
Toni Morrison
#18. They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
Toni Morrison
#19. My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all I remember.
Toni Morrison
#20. It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.
Toni Morrison
#21. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.
Toni Sorenson
#22. Whoever coined the phrase 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder,' was an idiot.
Absence makes a bitch go crazy.
Toni Aleo
#23. Auntie Elli, why are you open-mouth kissing Big Daddy Adler?
*Well, shit*
Toni Aleo
#24. Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own.
Toni Morrison
#25. No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer.
Toni Sorenson
#28. You'll never get it if you can't see yourself having it.
Toni Sorenson
#29. I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.
Toni Morrison
#30. Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
Toni Servillo
#33. The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
Toni Morrison
#34. I know I still affect you, and damn baby girl, you just don't understand what you still do to me.
Toni Aleo
#35. Deciding to do it and actually doing it are two very different things.
Toni Sorenson
#36. Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
Toni Morrison
#37. Wasn't there a tribe in Africa that lashed the dead body to the back of the one who had murdered it? That would certainly be justice - to carry the rotting corpse around as a physical burden as well as public shame and damnation.
Toni Morrison
#38. I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
Toni Morrison
#39. The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could take the next step: ask for some clarifying word; 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
#40. I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles
Toni Morrison
#41. Safeguarding our health will allow us to fulfill our divine potential and serve others more effectively.
Toni Sorenson
#42. If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.
Toni Sorenson
#43. I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
Toni Morrison
#44. Weaving in and out of traffic, she tooted the horn, mounted the footpath when needed and drove as fast as her Fiat would allow.
Toni Pike
#45. Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.
Toni Bernhard
#46. We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One who can know another person's heart.
Toni Sorenson
#47. I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
Toni Morrison
#48. Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.
Toni Sorenson
#49. When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?
Toni Cade Bambara
#51. Christmas is about Christ. When we forget that, we lose the true magic of Christmas.
Toni Sorenson
#52. To understand God we must understand ourselves.
Toni Sorenson
#53. I live in a small town, a town without much serious crime, but I'll tell you there are days when I see enough mean-spirited ugliness to ruin my lunch.
Toni Dwiggins
#54. What can I do?" he asked. "To start taking care of you?
Toni Blake
#55. Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.
Toni Sorenson
#57. The holidays drape us in magic and give us the hope that we can do better than we have done in the past.
Toni Sorenson
#58. One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.
Toni Morrison
#59. Looking at Milkman in those nighttime talks, they yearned for something. Some word from him that would rekindle the dream and stop the death they were dying.
Toni Morrison
#60. Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage.
Toni Sorenson
#61. What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.
Toni Cade Bambara
#62. Tell me you aren't as perfect as you seem, Alex." "Not even close to perfect." His blue-gray eyes darkened. "Not a complete asshole either.
Toni Anderson
#63. And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.
Toni Braxton
#64. trusting someone and the doubt that they'll be true is what kills marriages. 'Give in to love, or live in fear.
Toni Aleo
#65. Change your outlook on life by looking out of new eyes.
Toni Sorenson
#66. Is senses blunted by a permanent awareness of loss
Toni Morrison
#67. Social conversation was impossible for her because she could not lie.
Toni Morrison
#68. You have within you, something magical. It can't be seen. It can only be felt from within. But it exists are surely as you exist. It is your spirit - your human spirit.
Toni Sorenson
#69. Oh my God, you are making my girlie parts happy
Toni Aleo
#70. 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
#72. It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights - if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different.
Toni Morrison
#73. It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated - hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.
Toni Morrison
#74. The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
Toni Morrison
#75. From my new release, Cry for Me.
This is Bryen talking.
"Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!
Toni Mariani
#76. Don't you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can't be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won't matter.
Toni Sorenson
#78. You want a real thing?" asked Alice. "I'll tell you a real one. You got anything left to you to love, anything at all, do it.
Toni Morrison
#79. What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
Toni Morrison
#80. Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
Toni Morrison
#82. Officer Patrick Killion had called him to say he was following a lead on the assassin who'd killed the Vice President.
Toni Anderson
#84. Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.
Toni Morrison
#85. You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.
Toni Morrison
#86. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing is more powerful in deciding the quality of life than attitude.
Toni Sorenson
#87. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
Toni Sorenson
#88. We are stronger for the people who leave us, you know? Being able to live without them just shows how much better we are. No one can hold us back but ourselves, and I, for one, am proud of the person I am.
Toni Aleo
#89. How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay ... Catch me I'm falling for you ...
Toni Gonzaga
#90. No, and if it's not your brain thinking cold, cold thoughts, which you can dress in any kind of mood, then it's nothing. It has to be a cold, cold thought. I mean cold, or cool at least. Your brain. That's all there is.
Toni Morrison
#91. The sense of security which she thought she had found disappeared; the bottom fell out of her world and she felt herself falling into an abyss of unbelieving despair.
Toni Maguire
#92. ... he didn't needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.
Toni Morrison
#93. We forget that the power of God isn't in a weapon or a leader, but within us.
Toni Sorenson
#94. Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be.
Toni Sorenson
#96. In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
Toni Morrison
#97. Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison
#98. It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.
Toni Morrison
#99. From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.
Toni Morrison
#100. You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God's perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know.
Toni Sorenson
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