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
struggle mean ethnicity
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
years effort mind
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.
mothers-day mom children
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
today tomorrow said
Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
children eye light
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
writing self civilization
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
isolation destruction knows
Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
names meditation language
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
people paradise utopia
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
sister sweet crazy
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
jesus hate giving
Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?
book finishing wonderful
I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.
thinking past way
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
knowing beloved harder
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder