Toni Morrison Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.160, Random House

• I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Political, Duress

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

• Let your face speak what's in your heart.

  Toni Morrison

  Heart, Faces, Speak

  "Trust yourself: What's the best parenting advice you ever got?" by Dana Macario, www.today.com. October 5, 2012.

• In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.

  Toni Morrison

  Heart, Kids, Rooms

• Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2017). “The Origin of Others”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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