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Toni Morrison Quotes

All important things are hard Picture Quote #1

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me Picture Quote #1

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you Picture Quote #1

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent Picture Quote #1

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day Picture Quote #1

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn’t think of it as, oh, look, my father’s a violent man Picture Quote #1

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him Picture Quote #1

I don’t work. I keep telling people I’m unemployed. And I don’t wash dishes, and I don’t wash clothes, and I don’t clean my house. Somebody else does that Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I knew any of my father’s friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames Picture Quote #1

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil Picture Quote #1

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I couldn’t bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe Picture Quote #1

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances Picture Quote #1

Lonely, ain’t it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely Picture Quote #1

The hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything) Picture Quote #1

Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm Picture Quote #1

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Was it hard? I hope she didn’t die hard.’ Sethe shook her head. ‘Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part Picture Quote #1

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you’d have a little love left over for the next one Picture Quote #1

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn’t even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star Picture Quote #1

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it Picture Quote #1

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried Picture Quote #1

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Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there’s nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget’s Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards Picture Quote #1

What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren’t. Somebody tries to say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.’ People say that to me. There’s no language for it. Sorry doesn’t do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something Picture Quote #1

What I’m doing ain’t about hating White people. It’s about loving us Picture Quote #1

Well, feel this, why don’t you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don’t get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that Picture Quote #1

Please don’t settle for happiness. It’s not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that’s all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that’s more than a barren life. It’s a trivial one Picture Quote #1

I tell my students there is such a thing as ‘writer’s block,’ and they should respect it. You shouldn’t write through it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now Picture Quote #1

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All important things are hard (Toni Morrison Quotes) I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me (Toni Morrison Quotes) You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you (Toni Morrison Quotes) In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent (Toni Morrison Quotes) But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day (Toni Morrison Quotes) I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error (Toni Morrison Quotes) 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 Quotes) It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn’t think of it as, oh, look, my father’s a violent man (Toni Morrison Quotes) My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him (Toni Morrison Quotes) I don’t work. I keep telling people I’m unemployed. And I don’t wash dishes, and I don’t wash clothes, and I don’t clean my house. Somebody else does that (Toni Morrison Quotes) I don’t think I knew any of my father’s friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames (Toni Morrison Quotes) Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil (Toni Morrison Quotes) I couldn’t bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe (Toni Morrison Quotes) Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances (Toni Morrison Quotes) Lonely, ain’t it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely (Toni Morrison Quotes) The hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything) (Toni Morrison Quotes) Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm (Toni Morrison Quotes) Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other (Toni Morrison Quotes) 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 Quotes) Was it hard? I hope she didn’t die hard.’ Sethe shook her head. ‘Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part (Toni Morrison Quotes) Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you’d have a little love left over for the next one (Toni Morrison Quotes) Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn’t even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star (Toni Morrison Quotes) In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it (Toni Morrison Quotes) There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried (Toni Morrison Quotes) Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there’s nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget’s Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards (Toni Morrison Quotes) What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren’t. Somebody tries to say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.’ People say that to me. There’s no language for it. Sorry doesn’t do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something (Toni Morrison Quotes) What I’m doing ain’t about hating White people. It’s about loving us (Toni Morrison Quotes) Well, feel this, why don’t you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don’t get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that (Toni Morrison Quotes) Please don’t settle for happiness. It’s not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that’s all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that’s more than a barren life. It’s a trivial one (Toni Morrison Quotes) I tell my students there is such a thing as ‘writer’s block,’ and they should respect it. You shouldn’t write through it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now (Toni Morrison Quotes)

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