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
funny witty fun
I like marriage. The idea.
struggle mean ethnicity
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
people wish ems
I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more
smile people annoyed
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
loneliness profound silence
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
destiny views waiting
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
romantic-love ideas envy
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
dream
I dream a dream that dreams back at me
thinking past way
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
lost-love love-is thinking
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
names meditation language
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
cheat beats adolescence
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
isolation utopia separateness
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
goodbye sweet thinking
Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, "goodbye" would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet. "So long," she murmured from the far side of the trees.