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
artist became
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
differences sublime may
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
night snakes differences
Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
should-have ideas world
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
beloved feels
Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
friendship events gallant
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
patriotic differences humane
The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
rivals trouble loses
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
shallow believer
Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.
summer dust sky
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.
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.
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.