There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: inspiration
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
Toni MorrisonIs there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: speech prize nobel
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.
Toni MorrisonIf there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni MorrisonStichwörter: art literature black sociology african-american
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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 MorrisonA son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
Toni MorrisonWhat's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
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