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
today tomorrow said
Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
people paradise utopia
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
equality sisterhood two
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
isolation destruction knows
Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
dream dreamer should
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
mothers-day mom children
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
beauty nature world
At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.
country falling-in-love self
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
connotation rely sentences
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
love-you bad-word humans
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
passion leisure violence
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
gratitude hurt beer
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
land fruit bears
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
lost
Something that is loved is never lost.