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
memories home people
Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
clothes people house
I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.
names people bears
I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
play people
I don't do the things other people call "play."
children people ifs
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
life people needs
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.
ohio people world
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
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.
eye people miracle
Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.
children people earth
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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 ...
white people knees
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
thinking self people
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
hate white people
What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.