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American Novelist February 18, 1931

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Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, "goodbye" would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet."So long," she murmured from the far side of the trees. Toni Morrison
I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "...the change was adjustment without improvement."
...the change was adjustment without improvement. Toni Morrison
It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day. Toni Morrison
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. Toni Morrison
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path. Toni Morrison
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. Toni Morrison
I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it. Toni Morrison
Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between..."
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. Toni Morrison
Down by the stream in back of 124 her footprints come and go, come and go. They are so familiar. Should a child, an adult place his feet in them, they will fit. Take them out and they disappear again as though nobody ever walked there. By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water too and what it is down there. The rest is weather. Not the breath of the disremembered and unaccounted for, but wind in the eaves, or spring ice thawing too quickly.... Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that..."
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison
Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust..."
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get..."
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison

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