I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.More Toni Morrison quotes [07/26/2011 04:07:55]

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]