Toni Morrison

[tonimorrison]

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

Toni Morrison,

[tonimorrison]

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

[tonimorrison]

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

[tonimorrison]

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Toni Morrison

[tonimorrison]

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Toni Morrison

[tonimorrison]

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Toni Morrison

[tonimorrison]

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison

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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”

Toni Morrison (via lovedeen)

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[magdor]

“It was wine-soaked and took an hour; it was backward and punctured and incomplete, but it came out—little one’s story of who had hurt her.”

Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York, NY: Penguin, 1999. Print. 173. (via magdor)

[afrogeekgoddess]

"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."

[tonimorrison]

afrogeekgoddess:

Toni Morrison, Sula

[elegantfarmer-blog]

“Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it; that another stroke of time would do it at last.”

Toni Morrison, Beloved Chapter 10 (via elegantfarmer)

[magdor]

“She was not anxious, as might have been expected, but revolted by the work of her womb. A revulsion so severe it cut mind from body and saw its flesh-producing flesh as foreign, rebellious, unnatural, diseased.”

Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York, NY: Penguin, 1999. Print. 249. (via magdor)

[sovarious-sobeautiful]

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Toni Morrison (via droppingyouwherenobodyknows)

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[galgohelder-deactivated20190408]

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison (via theraptorwhomurderedlove)