Toni Morrison citáty
Toni Morrison
Datum narození: 18. únor 1931
Toni Morrisonová, vlastním jménem Chloe Anthony Wofford je americká spisovatelka, redaktorka a profesorka. Jedná se o nositelku Nobelovy ceny za literaturu. Její knihy jsou známy díky užívání epických témat, živých dialogů a propracovaných charakteristik postav afroamerického původu. Mezi její nejznámější knihy patří Velmi modré oči, Píseň o Šalamounovi nebo Milovaná, za kterou získala v roce 1988 Pulitzerovu cenu. Americkým časopisem s názvem Ladies' Home Journal byla vybrána mezi třicet nejmocnějších žen v Americe.
Citáty Toni Morrison
„Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.“
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Context: Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Guitar to Milkman on why a male peacock can't fly much better than a chicken. Song of Solomon (1977)
„Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.“
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
Context: 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. <!-- ~ Ch. 9
„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. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.“
— Toni Morrison
Tar Baby (1981). <!-- p. 245 -->
„It is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion — because hatred is involved in it, too.“
— Toni Morrison
Context: It is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion — because hatred is involved in it, too. I thought if I removed the word from nearly every other place in the manuscript, it could become an earned word. If I could give the word, in my very modest way, its girth and its meaning and its terrible price and its clarity at the moment when that is all there is time for, then the title does work for me.
On the title of her book Love (2003), in [http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200311/omag_200311_toni_b.jhtml O, The Oprah Magazine (November 2003)]
