Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
TONI CADE BAMBARA I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try...
TONI CADE BAMBARA When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime ...
TONI CADE BAMBARA Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
TONI CADE BAMBARA It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
TONI CADE BAMBARA Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in...
TONI CADE BAMBARA [W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
TONI CADE BAMBARA Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work t...
TONI CADE BAMBARA The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
TONI CADE BAMBARA The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
TONI CADE BAMBARA I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves
TONI CADE BAMBARA My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridg...
TONI CADE BAMBARA They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will n...
JACK CADE The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but fa...
JACK CADE They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he...
JACK CADE It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence...
JACK CADE They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himsel...
JACK CADE We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's pe...
JACK CADE By no means am I saying his dream is fulfilled entirely. I don't believe it's been met fully, but we...
AL CADE He felt comfortable in so many different situations. He had the respect of world leaders and the com...
AL CADE Look at what he was able to do in a time of crisis. The black population was only about 10 percent, ...
AL CADE Dr. King stood for all people. He said it's not a black and white issue, it's all encompassing. Unti...
AL CADE As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.
CADE BERNSEN It was worse than anyone would imagine. It's a nightmare. We need to do our part here at the U of A,...
CADE BERNSEN I remember times going out and sitting on the bank of the Mississippi river, smoking a cigar and wat...
CADE BERNSEN I'm here to observe and support the senate.
CADE BERNSEN I am praying for them. That's all you can (do), I guess. Pray that those soldiers get in there and g...
CADE BERNSEN Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became tr...
TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
TONI MORRISON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Lov...
TONI MORRISON Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman w...
TONI MORRISON We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
TONI MORRISON If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an in...
TONI MORRISON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for...
TONI MORRISON There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the f...
TONI MORRISON You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
TONI MORRISON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
TONI MORRISON The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
TONI MORRISON You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
TONI MORRISON Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
TONI MORRISON I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
TONI MORRISON Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
TONI MORRISON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. TONI MORRISON I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contemp...
TONI MORRISON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I ...
TONI MORRISON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets e...
TONI MORRISON Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...
TONI MORRISON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of tha...
TONI MORRISON Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...
TONI MORRISON Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the r...
TONI MORRISON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
TONI MORRISON I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have ...
TONI MORRISON Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
TONI MORRISON It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
TONI ALEO Discussions are ongoing, but we are not in a position to report any new developments.
TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or eve...
TONI MORRISON Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream bo...
TONI MORRISON I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.
TONI COLLETTE And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its...
TONI MORRISON Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defens...
TONI MORRISON It's nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Their ecstasy is more a leaf-sig...
TONI MORRISON I’m crazy about this City.

Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half....
TONI MORRISON the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i...
TONI MORRISON Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets ...
TONI MORRISON A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white pe...
TONI MORRISON For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this cou...
TONI MORRISON I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.
TONI COLLETTE I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.
TONI BRAXTON The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, d...
TONI MORRISON As soon as the season starts, I start putting those commitments down on the calendar. Every letter, ...
TONI HARRIS She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON There is documentation that wearing a seat belt reduces injuries from 55 to 65 percent. The one thin...
TONI TIANO We definitely looked rusty and out of sync since we hadn't played for almost two weeks. Our decision...
TONI VARACCHI It was a bright, orange arrow, and at first in looking at it I didn't really know what it was, and a...
TONI HARRIS In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ...
TONI MORRISON Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo...
TONI MORRISON It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about ...
TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISON Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal ...
TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
TONI MORRISON Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an...
TONI COLLETTE Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.
TONI SORENSON She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no...
TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.
TONI COLLETTE The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and ...
TONI SORENSON I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
TONI BRAXTON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,
TONI BRAXTON Beauty and the Beast
TONI BRAXTON The first two albums, I think I was a young adult, ... Now I definitely feel like an adult. I feel l...
TONI BRAXTON Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of ...
TONI MORRISON There's a little shoulder, a little bit of my back out, ... They've really gone out of their way to ...
TONI BRAXTON He Wasn't Man Enough,
TONI BRAXTON How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard...
TONI BRAXTON It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles...
TONI MORRISON I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
TONI MORRISON The males somehow cue in to the cascade of hormonal changes going on in their pregnant mates.
TONI ZIEGLER It was a close game until that (basket) started looking like a garbage truck and whatever we threw u...
TONI KUKOC nothing more than his personal opinion.
TONI ATKINS We're all somewhat disturbed and quite surprised to see this information, ... I think it means we're...
TONI ATKINS You have to know what you have and how it's categorized to have that discussion, so it's pretty high...
TONI ATKINS I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ......
TONI ATKINS I think it's just going to make North Park a cultural hub in the city, ... and people will start com...
TONI ATKINS I think we're on the same page, ... We want to move the city forward.
TONI ATKINS However, his opinion involves a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from the citizens of ...
TONI ATKINS It is irresponsible for the city attorney, who has been elected to protect the interests of the city...
TONI ATKINS What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.
TONI ATKINS The citizens of San Diego are opening their hearts, their homes and certainly are opening their arms...
TONI ATKINS (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those di...
TONI SIMONETTI I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON Dell has done so well that it's become an 800-pound gorilla. But it's hard to grow an 800-pound gori...
TONI DUBOISE As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of...
TONI COLLETTE When I go to see a movie, if I can't engage emotionally then it doesn't affect me and I can't get an...
TONI COLLETTE If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that...
TONI MORRISON All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eigh...
TONI MORRISON Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where w...
TONI MORRISON There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer
TONI MORRISON