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
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
country war class
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
dream
I dream a dream that dreams back at me
romantic-love ideas envy
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
inspiring best-things
You are your best thing
views should-have people
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
art african-american tolerance
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.