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
summer dust sky
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.
love-you eye heart
Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
pain heal without-pain
Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
sweat language provocative
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
important information stuff
When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
roots circles ancestor
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
ideas racism mastery
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
country juice littles
Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.
girl heart eye
A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment
order imagination serenity
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?
girl lonely mind
Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.
thinking unthinkable willing
You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
falling-in-love fall rose
I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
ties long use
If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.