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
important want intimacy
Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
responsibility want
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.
baby gone want
When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
next stories want
He wants to put his story next to hers.
ideas clothes want
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas.
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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
writing people want
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
decision want safe
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
giving-up want getting-things-done
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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.
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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.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.