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
moving eye loving-life
If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to fury. How dare she love him? Hadn't she any sense at all? What was he supposed to do about that? Return it? How? What could his calloused hands produce to make her smile? What of his knowledge of the world and of life could be useful to her? What could his heavy arms and befuddled brain accomplish that would earn him his own respect, that would in turn allow him to accept her love?
games snakes lions
Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
cheat beats adolescence
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
hard-work writing differences
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays
sorry grief thinking
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
hate white people
What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
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.