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American Novelist February 18, 1931

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When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself. Toni Morrison
A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom"
124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to..."
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "The function of freedom is to free someone else."
The function of freedom is to free someone else. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get..."
Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you. Toni Morrison
Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn. Toni Morrison
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence. Toni Morrison
Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that..."
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. Toni Morrison
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. Toni Morrison
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
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a..."
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
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question. Toni Morrison

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