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Toni MorrisonThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni MorrisonPeople say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: writing-advice
She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification.
Toni MorrisonIf happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
Toni MorrisonI am Beloved and she is mine. I see her take flowers away from leaves she puts them in a round basket the leaves are not for her she fills the basket she opens the grass I would help her but the clouds are in the way how can I say things that are pictures I am not separate from her there is no place where I stop her face is my own and I want to be there in the place where her face is and to be looking at it too a hot thing.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: beloved
If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: beloved
But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.
Toni MorrisonShadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: sula
Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: beloved toni-morrison
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