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
art media class
Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.
giving wicked dominion
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
beautiful art political
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
clever definitions beloved
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
beauty nature world
At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.
inspirational mean elude-you
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
love-you bad-word humans
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
dream dreamer should
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
lying miracle magic
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
lost
Something that is loved is never lost.
past years laughing
It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
land fruit bears
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
destiny views waiting
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
believe writing dark
Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.