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Toni Morrison Quote: “You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving – thats what’s useful for art.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “A son ain’t what a woman say. A son is what a man do.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You couldn’t learn age, but adulthood was there for all.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn’t get interested in leaving life or living it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The best thing she was, was her children.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations...”
Toni Morrison Quote: “She is not so afraid at night because she is the color of it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there – on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Did you do it yet?” He was like a teen-age girl wondering about the virginity of her friend, the friend who has a look, a manner newly minted––different, separate, focused somehow. “Did you do it yet? Do you know something both exotic and ordinary that I have not felt? Do you now know what it’s like to risk your one and only self? How did it feel? Were you afraid? Did it change you? And if I do it, will it change me too?”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I write the way women have babies. You don’t know it’s going to be like that. If you did, there’s no way you would go through with it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Don’t love her too much. Don’t. Maybe it’s still in her the thing that makes it all right to kill her children. I have to tell her. I have to protect her.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Our debates, for the most part, are examples unworthy of a playground: name-calling, verbal slaps, gossip, giggles, all while the swings and slides of governance remain empty.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Everything bad that ever happened to him happened because he couldn’t read.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it’s much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don’t need to try and make it go away. It shouldn’t go away. Its just as sad as it ought to be and I’m not going to hide from what’s true just because it hurts.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “It takes a certain intelligence to love like that – softly, without props. But the world is such a showpiece, maybe that’s why folks try to outdo it, put everything they feel onstage just to prove they can think up things too: handsome scary things like fights to the death, adultery, setting sheets afire. They fail of course. The world outdoes them every time.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin life!”
Toni Morrison Quote: “At least she’s willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “What you want to be when you grow up?” Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. “A man,” he said and left.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Hunched down in the small bright room Nel waited. Waited for the oldest cry. A scream not for others, not in sympathy for a burnt child, or a dead father, but a deeply personal cry for one’s own pain. A loud, strident: ‘Why me?’ She waited.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. And unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. I prefer not to adjust to my environment. I refuse the prison of “I” and choose the open spaces of “we”.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “What does ‘poor’ mean? No television?” Steve raised his eyebrows. “It means no money,” said Bride. “Same thing,” he answered. “No money, no television.” “Means no washing machine, no fridge, no bathroom, no money!” “Money get you out of that Jaguar? Money save your ass?”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “They shoot the white girl first.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really – had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Funny how you lose sight of some things and memory others.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Now I know why Baby Suggs pondered color her last years. She never had time to see, let alone enjoy it before.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I sang “O Holy Night” in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Do what you please in the City, it is there to back and frame you no matter what you do.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it’s nothing else but color.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Let her go?′ asked Son, and he smiled a crooked smile. Let go the woman you had been looking for everywhere just because she was difficult? Because she had a temper, energy, ideas of her own and fought back? Let go a woman whose eyebrows were a study, whose face was enough to engage your attention all your life? Let go a woman who was not only a woman but a sound, all the music he had ever wanted to play, a world and a way of being in it? Let that go? ‘I can’t,’ he said. ‘I can’t.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “My nature is a quiet one, anyway. As a child I was considered respectful; as a young woman I was called discreet. Later on I was thought to have the wisdom maturity brings.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.”
Toni Morrison Quote: “I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don’t read them later.”
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