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
men hacking beloved
Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.
anger done beloved
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done.
beloved feels
Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
men singing beloved
And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
mother killers beloved
Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.
clever definitions beloved
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
knowing beloved harder
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
hurt beloved coming-back
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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.
freedom self beloved
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
definitions beloved defined
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
bit claimed claiming freed freeing ownership self
Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
cent designed dose education eighty liberal per useful work
Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.
almost amused comic list mindful regarding
I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost comic obtuseness regarding women, ... generous; impractical; often wrong; always engaged; mindful of, and often amused by, his own power.