#toni morrison

[theimportanceofbeingbunbury]

finally reading beloved by toni morrison. genuinely the most weighted and haunting opening section of a book i’ve ever read in my life ohhhh my god.

[prettyweirdheart]

Who or what inspires you?

toni morrison♡ one of my professors once used the term ‘literary mother’ and she’s definitely one of mine

i’d also name lana del rey as a huge influence in my writing & singing

as for the what, i think seeing acts of kindness. like yesterday my mom and i bought a meal for a homeless man on the street. things that remind me that we are human and that we are worth living for

[why-are-you-asking-me]

More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live—just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals.

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

[withinsight-motivation]

[tholdones]

[perfectquote]

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

Toni Morrison, Beloved

[apologize-to-no-one]

[kikisloane]

“Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It's that, that makes it elegant. Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline, it needs blood, it needs fingernails. It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. This is a more fascinating job. We are already born, we are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”

-Toni Morrison