Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrisonis an American novelist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 February 1931
CityLorain, OH
CountryUnited States of America
lying vitality language
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
creating narrative revolutionary
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
black black-women touchstones
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
important hard important-things
All important things are hard.
night thinking sky
...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.
unmotivated
Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.
obliged
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
war arrogance slavery
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
white people knees
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
sexy writing too-much-information
Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.
ideas clothes want
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas.
friendship events gallant
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
shallow believer
Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.
character animal tree
I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.