Toni Morrison Quotes - Page 12

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• ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Night, Breathing

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Envy, Hatred

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• When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Needs, Gone

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

  Toni Morrison

  Book, Buyers

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• You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing, Ugly, Mysterious

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.26, Random House

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• I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Thinking, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, Death, Nature

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Children, Blue

  Toni Morrison (2017). “Race: Vintage Minis”, p.28, Random House

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• Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Book, Character

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

  Toni Morrison

  Sheep, Sight, Here I Am

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• Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

  Toni Morrison

  Yesterday, Needs, Beloved

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• The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Income, Done

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Toni Morrison (2007). “Playing in the Dark”, p.19, Vintage

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• Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.

  Toni Morrison

  Breakup, Clouds, Circles

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• 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.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Juice, Littles

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, People, Delightful

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• One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Kids, Hatred

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• And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

  Toni Morrison

  Song, Children, Flirting

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• A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

  Toni Morrison

  Gun, Coward, World

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• [Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Imagination, Creative

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• The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

  Toni Morrison

  School, Writing, College

  Interview With Chloe Brooks, theharvardadvocate.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Events, Gallant

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.268, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

  Toni Morrison

  Native American, Enjoy, Native

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• Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild...It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law.

  Toni Morrison

  War, Dirty, Men

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• Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my remory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Thinking, House

  "Beloved". Book by Toni Morrison, books.google.ru. September 4, 2014.

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