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
fear boys black
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
men feminist black
Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.
cities people black
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
writing black-and-white men
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.
bored people black
Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever ...
black black-women touchstones
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
names black down-and
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
latin black melting
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
thinking people black
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
mean black black-women
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
history black female
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
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.
black limits violence
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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.