Toni Morrison Circles Quotations

Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.