Toni Morrison Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.160, Random House

• My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Hate, Gun

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

• The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

  Toni Morrison

  Evil, Firsts, Survived

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

  Toni Morrison

  Evil, Complicated, Boring

  Source: wordmag.com

• Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

  Toni Morrison

  Evil, Seductive, Needs

  Source: wordmag.com

• Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

  Toni Morrison

  Kids, Evil, Interesting

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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