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
names black down-and
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
real race information
Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
order imagination serenity
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?
men singing beloved
And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
girl heart eye
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
men conquer
When a man angers you, he conquers you.
night snakes differences
Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
thinking self people
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
roots circles ancestor
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
new-york cities lasts
New York is the last true city.
important information stuff
When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
latin black melting
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
writing thinking discovery
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
mother killers beloved
Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.