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
thinking diversity mind
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
beloved difficult refuge
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
inspiring goes-on angry
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
inspirational women differences
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
inspirational dream thinking
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
broken-heart running men
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
racism people gone
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
hate race play
The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.
art journey cost
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
men black magic
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
block writing students
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.
beauty thank-you photography
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
love fall thinking
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
commitment justice not-good-enough
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.