#toni morisson

[boid0ll]

you’ve been crowned—it’s already been done. you hear ? get to loving, get to loving.

[black-whole]

“The music insisted that the past might haunt us, but it would not entrap us. It demanded a future...”

- Toni Morrison, Jazz

[mydailybookquotes]

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

-Toni Morrison

[ba-mi-soro-orisha]

Toni Morisson said ‘if there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it'. That's what Children of Blood And Bone was for me.

Tomi Adeyemi, InStyle interview

[frasespoesiaseafins]

via Mulheres que escrevem

[black-whole]

“... one that would reflect the content and characteristics of its music (romance, freedom of choice, doom, seduction, anger) and the manner of its expression…

Primary among these features [of the Jazz Age], however, was invention. Improvisation, originality, change. Rather than be about those characteristics, this novel would seek to become them …

I had written novels in which structure was designed to enhance meaning; here the structure would equal meaning. The challenge was to expose and bury the artifice and to take practice beyond the rules. I didn’t want simply a musical background, or decorative references to it. I wanted the work to be a manifestation of the music’s intellect, sensuality, anarchy; its history, its range, and its modernity”

- Toni Morrison, Jazz, Foreword

[mydailybookquotes]

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”

-Toni Morrison

[mydailybookquotes]

“There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye