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
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.
intellectual paradise topics
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
country media people
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
freedom self beloved
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
circles long sorrow
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
love-is lovers
Love is never any better than the lover.
art pain important
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge-even wisdom. Like art.
sister sibling special
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.